October 8th, 2005 in Lifehack

Read RSS in Google Way: Google Reader

Google is catching up on the RSS services trend. Google has released another web services called Google Reader – It is a RSS reader which able you to read web feeds in web browser. The interface is quite simple and very similar to Gmail. Some good features include: Keyboard shortcuts for navigation; Able to star posts for later references; and able to tag the posts into your label list. See if you like it – Remember to add lifehack.org’s feed (http://www.lifehack.org/feed/) while you at it. :)

Google Reader – [Google.com]

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Stephen Pierzchala says on October 9th, 2005 at 12:28 am
All I can say is: I hope Google inproves on their beta. Other than the “WOW! AJAX” feeling, I hated the interface.
smp
tim says on October 9th, 2005 at 12:57 am
I tried it and found it difficult to see which blogs had new posts. It is very similar in looks to gmail. I don’t think I’m ready to switch over from bloglines just yet. Although it was very easy to import my current rss feeds in google reader. I’m gonna wait awhile.
songzhen says on October 9th, 2005 at 1:14 am
ajax ~~cool
Leon says on October 9th, 2005 at 1:34 am
@Stephen, Tim: I got the same feeling. My ideal web Feed Reader would be the mixture of bloglines with some google features like tagging and keyboard shortcuts. Really, Google Reader has a bit of usability issues.
Jaco says on October 9th, 2005 at 9:01 am
Good featurethat you can import from OPML file. Yahoo does not have it.
Did not work in Opera :-(
Steven Pam says on October 10th, 2005 at 4:32 pm
“Google has released another web services called Google Reader – It is a RSS reader which able you to read web feeds in web browser”
It is already possible to read RSS feeds in a browser – Opera.
The feed reader within Opera seems to work quite satisfactorily (haven’t tried any others so I can’t compare).
Of course the web-based service would be more useful if you frequently work away from, or don’t have, your own computer.