Google Reader

Published
by
Pedro Timóteo
3 years ago
in Blogging and World Wide Web
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Google Reader is a new web-based RSS feed aggregator.

I’ve just played with it for a couple of minutes, but, from first impressions:

  • It’s fast. Really fast. Gmail-like fast.
  • Uses AJAX, just like Gmail.
  • The interface is a lot like Gmail’s. Do you see a pattern here? :)
  • Looks relatively clean, simple and easy to use.
  • Works perfectly in Firefox 1.5b2; haven’t tried it in other browsers yet.

I think I’ll use it for a couple of days, subscribing to just a few feeds. I could export an OPML file in Bloglines and import it in Google Reader, and instantly subscribe to all the feeds I read, but I want to test it with just half a dozen feeds first.

Shameless self-promotion :): if you want to test it yourself, this is a good feed to subscribe to. ;)

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  4. Blogging tips #2.5: Finding stuff to write about using Search Feeds
  5. RSS aggregators: alternatives to Bloglines?

1 Response to “Google Reader”

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  1. 1 selsine
    3 years ago.

    Hey thanks for the info, I hadn’t heard of google reader yet and it’s actually very cool. I subscribed to slashdot as a test and it’s actually a pretty nice way to browse the stories.

    For now I’ll probably just stick to the RSS bookmarks in Firefox, but you never know when something like this might come in handy.

    selsine

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