Here’s the latest cool new thing that Google has come out with. It’s called Google Reader. Overall, it has a VERY nice look. It’s easy to read and pleasant to look at. And of course Google has put lots of functionality into it. The only thing it doesn’t do (yet) that Bloglines does for me is handle email subscriptions. If Google Reader adds that capability, I’m dumping Bloglines like a month-old potato and going Google.
Here are some of the features, if you’re curious.
You can add folders and put the feeds in the folders. You can rename the feeds, so you’re not stuck with the name they have if you don’t want it. You can sort newest or oldest and show all the items or only new ones. You can even add a star to a particular post, just like you do to certain emails in Gmail. Oh, and you can add tags to individual posts also.
There’s also a “Subscribe” button that you can drag onto your web browser’s toolbar, so when you’re on a page that has a feed, one click will show the feed in your Google Reader. If you like it, you click the “+Subscribe” button at the top and you’ve got it.
If you want to add subscriptions to the blogs of friends, using any of the popular bloglike software (e.g., MySpace, LiveJournal, Xanga, Flickr), you can easily add their feed by entering their username and selecting which service they use.
Do you use another feed reader? You can easily import your subscriptions from that reader to Google reader. You just have to export your subscription in OPML (XML) format so it can be imported. Here’s a link to export instructions for a variety of other feed aggregators. If you have organized your feeds into folders, those folders will import also.
If you like, you can even add the Google Reader to your Personalized Google Home Page.
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