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software for reading news feeds 

Aggreg8.net
It is an RSS feed aggregator and was built on the Mozilla framework or XPFE. It uses XUL, Javascript, RDF, CSS, XPConnect, and XPCOM.
NetNewsWire Lite
NetNewsWire is an OSX desktop RSS reader, written in Cocoa.
Bloglines
A web-based personal news aggregator that can be used in place of a desktop client.
Feedreader
Freeware application for Windows.
AmphetaDesk
Free, cross platform, open-sourced, syndicated news aggregator.
Wildgrape NewsDesk
A free .NET based RSS reader with hundreds of RSS channels and supporting the OCS directory format.
BlogExpress
Free reader that can read any weblog and any site with XML files for content syndication (generally, a file with .rss, .rdf, or .xml extension). BlogExpress requires Microsoft .NET Framework 1.0 Runtime.
Slashdock
A simple Mac OS X application that fetches and updates headlines for the latest postings on slashdot-compatible sites and RSS-compatible sites.
mmm… newscraper, I love you
Free, web-based aggregator of Mohd Jaffry's watchlist of design & web blogs.
MyWireService
A web-based custom newspaper that delivers just the headlines you want, from all the news sources and weblogs you like in one page you can access from anywhere.
Reptile
A P2P project, with RSS reading.
Surfpack Startpage
Free all-in-one aggregator for Windows, browser-based, builds a single HTML page from RSS, Atom, XML/XSL, HTML, and JavaScript news sources. Also includes bookmarks manager, current weather, and other modules.
RSS News Reader
This web-based RSS reader allows you to read news using a browser. It supports RSS 9.1, 9.2 and 1.0.
RSS Viewer
A Java based, open source RSS reader.
TALAggregator
Multi-user web based RSS Aggregator. Caches feeds to MySQL database, handles bad RSS, and includes template driven interface.