Using Feed Readers

After using feedreader.com for a week, I've seen that RSS feeds can be handy for relaying information from different locations to one place. I liked the fact that you can organize your feeds into different categories, and that it notifies you of how many items you haven't read yet. However, when I tried to log into my feedreader account this morning, an error occurred, which wouldn't allow any of the feeds to load. Though I like the idea of feed readers, I just think that the website is a little unstable. In addition, a lot of websites no longer support RSS feeds, so it's kind of difficult to find pages to subscribe to. 

Page 123 #2: How Companies Use RSS Feeds

This is the article that I found:  http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/business_technology/how_companies_are_benefiting_from_web_20_mckinsey_global_survey_results

 Although the article above states that companies still use RSS feeds to contact their customers and employees, it suggests that they now use websites like Twitter rather than RSS feeds.  In addition, the article suggests that the more "heavily used" technologies companies are now using include blogs, wikis and podcasts in order to keep up to date with their consumers.  I think that companies are shifting away from RSS feeds due to the new websites that keep coming out.