Google Feed Reader

June 3rd, 2008 omo Posted in Reviews | No Comments »

A while ago there was some controversy about how Google Reader shares your feeds with people whose email are recorded in gmail, as a way to get some kind of social networking going on. Criticisms aside, I think stuff like that turned me away from using it.

But having a centralized, online feed that is customized by you is pretty useful for reading blogs at work, and Google feed reader is actually quite excellent of a feed reader. It could be a little more feature rich but I was surprised already at what it had. I didn’t really have much of an expectation to begin with, I guess.

So after a week of use I have to say it’s quite cool. I’ve shared a few (like my anime blog :toot:) blogs there. Can’t say much about the social networking aspect (don’t really care, and it isn’t well-developed anyways), but it’s nice to browse fat wallet this way.

Coincidentally it also keeps track of numbers of subscribers via Google Reader for each blog you subscribe to. It’s much more reassuring to see that Jeff Lawson’s blog has more than 10x the reader than mine (compared to animenano’s subscriber thingy), but at the same time I’m nearly shocked that I have even 1/10th of the reader he has.

Well, I guess I know one subscriber other than myself personally :)

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