7 Responses to “Google Reader Review”  

1. 1 Yannick on Sep 30th, 2006 said:

   I’m a Bloglines fan also. They have certainly done a good job and the little additions/changes they make every now and then are always nice.

2. 2 rob on Sep 30th, 2006 said:

   Well, I have to say I’ve been playing with Google Reader this weekend and so far I really like it. I may stick with it for a few days to see. It reminds me of Gmail.

   One thing I really like is it will display only what I haven’t read.

   One thing I don’t like (compared to Bloglines) is the email feature. Bloglines sends a much cleaner email than what Google Reader is sending.

3. 3 IndyChristian on Oct 2nd, 2006 said:

   I use MyYahoo aggregator. It’s ok, but is limited to 50 feeds, which may seem like a lot, but really is pretty limiting when you get into it.

4. 4 rob on Oct 2nd, 2006 said:

   Yeah, I’ve used my.yahoo for that before and it’s not bad. Easy as pie, but not the best. you can’t do a lot with it.

   I’ve been using Google Reader exclusively since the weekend and I must say that I really like it. Another issue (besides the ones I mentioned earlier) is when you add a feed, you can’t assign a tag to it at that moment. You have to subscribe, then go in and manage your subs. Bloglines lets you organize it from the beginning.

   At this point, I’d say that Bloglines is still the best for free, but Google Reader has them on the run to be sure.

5. 5 Karin on Oct 9th, 2006 said:

   I’m on the fence with this whole GoogleReader thing. I’m a fan of bloglines and one of my favorite parts is its ability to email the posts in a very clean way.

   Question: with GoogleReader, does everyone know that you’re online when you’re checking? With Gmail, other people in my friends list can see me and chat when I’m checking my mail. Does the same thing happen with GoogleReader because I’m logged in as well?

6. 6 rob on Oct 9th, 2006 said:

   Karin, yeah, the email function is a big deal to me too. Right now I’m just sending the URL to people instead. I hope they clean it up.

   As for being seen when reading, I don’t think that’s the case. I think that’s only true for gMail since it’s a person-to-person communication. It makes sense that chat would show up in the email program, but not in the web communication reader. At least that’s my guess.

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