donderdag, december 20, 2007
RSS Feed Reader: Google Reader or Bloglines?
One of the things you do when you buy a new computer is clean up your old mess before you migrate everything, and move to new applications. So I'm also taking the opportunity to switch to a new reader to follow all the blogs, Flickr photo's and other RSS streams on the might Internet. I used to use the build-in reader on my mail client Thunderbird. But I wanted to switch to a web-based reader, that I can access from everywhere and has a nice and easy overview of what's new or unread.So I made a choice between Blogliner and Google Reader. Blogliner is the oldest of the two and still very popular. Google Reader is more recent and had a bad start with bad reviews in the beginning, but after some upgrade earlier this year many people are happy with it. I also decided for Google Reader, because of the better interface (Google interface is just Google, but Blogliner's is really last century.) So far it is a joy to follow my feeds via Google, it integrates well with my browser's feed subscription capabilities, you can mark a post as unread, give it a star, add tags (or labels as Google names them), etc. And it's quite fast. Besides, both Ralph and Geert are using it, so who am I to doubt my friends? :-) The downside that I see is that once again I'm using another Google service. They now know what I search for (Google Search), what's in my agenda (Google Agenda), what I read (Google Reader), what I blog (Blogger), who reads my blog (Feedburner), how my web site is doing (Google Analytics), what's on my computer (Google Desktop), my home financials (Google Docs), and I just today paid them 50 euro for advertisements (Google AdWords)...
Labels: blogliner, google, google reader, RSS
