The endless quest...

For a good RSS aggregator just got a little more difficult.

Feedlounge has just gone live - and based on my observations, it looks to be an outstanding web based blog reading experience. All the cool stuff is here - easy to manage tags to replace the folder metaphors, great use of AJAX to dynamically construct the UI in a way that doesn't bother you. Shiny, pretty uncluttered interface, that remembers where you've been and what you saw last.

All in all, it's extremely well done, and looks like the web based reader that bloglines should be (and the google reader certainly isn't). At 5$ a month, the old adage of "You get what you pay for" seems to hold true here...