Comments on: Google Reader - Beautiful, Needs Work

By: 2008: Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn’t Live Without

2008: Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn’t Live Without — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 19:02:58 +0000

[…] and useful feed reader available today. The product actually first launched in October 2005 but had serious flaws. But it got steadily better over time. Recent privacy hiccups aside, Google Reader is a beautiful […]

By: All New AOL Feed Reader Coming Soon | Tekjuice.com

All New AOL Feed Reader Coming Soon | Tekjuice.com — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 05:50:05 +0000

[…] took a similar approach with their product. It was nothing to write home about when it first launched in October 2005, but the company released a new version in 2006 that was widely applauded. Today […]

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Just a random blog ! — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 01:50:02 +0000

By: All New AOL Feed Reader Coming Soon : Forecast-Blog

All New AOL Feed Reader Coming Soon : Forecast-Blog — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 01:37:32 +0000

By: Just How Big Is Google Reader?

Just How Big Is Google Reader? — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:17:36 +0000

[…] Google’s RSS reader was nothing to write home about when it first launched in October 2005. But the new version, released late last year, has won it accolades and legions of new fans. More than a few people have recently called it the best RSS reader, hands down. […]

By: aka wombat

aka wombat — Tue, 30 May 2006 00:17:56 +0000

Google Reader took me a few days to get used to (coming from FeedDemon) and is now my favorite rss reader of all time. I was concerned about not being able to pull up individual feeds without having to go to the Edit Subscriptions option, but I learned the magic of making secondary labels to create a tiny mix bag of my daily essentials and have that load up on my Personalized Google Home

By: Steven

Steven — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 21:53:47 +0000

I just started playing around with google reader. It’s got a ways to go for sure, but I’ll bet this will set the standard in due course. I’d like to be able to save content. I suppose emailing it or printing it from webpages isn’t a bad solution. There’s always making pdfs. But I’d like to be able to save to a folder. This is one reason I’ve liked Feeddemon as a desktop solution for Windows.

By: Talkings of a Tyrant :: Google Reader - a Review :: October :: 2005

Talkings of a Tyrant :: Google Reader - a Review :: October :: 2005 — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 21:17:18 +0000

[…] While I’ve heard some people say they don’t like this organizing system, I do. Sue me. […]

By: GodsMoon

GodsMoon — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 18:29:55 +0000

I wrote a subscribe button for Google Reader in the form of a bookmarklet. Fell free to go use it.

What I’d really like is an offline client that I could sync Google Reader with. That’d be really nice.

By: TechCrunch » Google Reader - Was I Too Quick to Criticize?

TechCrunch » Google Reader - Was I Too Quick to Criticize? — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 23:48:04 +0000

[…] We wrote about Google Reader over the weekend and gave what I felt was a factually correct review of the product. However, some of the comments I’ve received to the post, along with a couple of emails, suggested some of my criticisms were off the mark. I took another look today and I must say that I was dead wrong on a few points. […]

By: Ho John Lee

Ho John Lee — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 04:24:19 +0000

I wrote up a few quick notes on my blog. I love keyboard navigation, but the relevance sorting (or lack of it) drove me nuts, since it didn’t have a clue about what to look for in my basket of 500 newly added feeds and no click-throughs.

The user interface is pretty and “fun”, and I think I’m going to point some “new-to-feedreader” users at it, as it seems like it might be easier than Bloglines or Rojo for a mostly casual user.

If they turn a revision based on user feedback, this could end up being pretty good, though. There are a lot of things I wish for in Bloglines, like better feed management (navigation, sorting), and useable search integration.

By: Mundane Ramblings

Mundane Ramblings — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 04:17:13 +0000

I’m sticking with Bloglines

As pretty much 80% of the posts I read concur, I must admit that I can’t stand the way the Google reader shuffles the posts for me. It’s a deal breaker, and I’m out for this one until they fix…

By: Laughing Squid » Google Reader

Laughing Squid » Google Reader — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 01:03:13 +0000

[…] For a beta service, Google Reader is a pretty nice tool and includes a search feature that adds a “subscribe” button to the links returned with the search results, which of course are narowed down to only websites that have feeds. Here’s some more feedback on Google Reader from Om Malik, Niall Kennedy and TechCrunch. tags: google, rss – posted by Scott Beale on Sunday, October 9th, 2005 Comments RSS feed | Trackback URL […]

By: Laughing Squid

Laughing Squid — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 00:52:43 +0000

Google Reader

Google recently launched an RSS/Atom feed reader called Google Reader. For those of you looking for an alternative to Bloglines or have been searching for an online news reader in general, then you might want to give this one a try. The great thing …

By: Kyle

Kyle — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 22:25:12 +0000

I wrote a quick critique of it on my blog. Overall, I like the direction Google is taking it, I would just like to see at least some of the following:

- Dump the Home view. It’s pointless. Replace it with the Subscription view, and make the subscription data table more useful. I’d rather see a more data rich table, with the number of unread posts in each subscription, along with perhaps the number Starred posts and a link to display only the starred posts in each feed.

- The subscription view, by default, use the all label, which is the same as the current Home view. The only problem with using the subscription view as your default view is that it takes up quite a bit of screen space, often pushing part of the current article below the fold on smaller resolutions. Allow us a -/+ button in the top right corner to minimize the subscription view. Infact, it might be nice if they allowed us an option to resize the subscription view on our own.

I feel the above suggestions would be a great improvement over the current model. At least they seem to have improved the speed and crashing issues over the last couple of days.

Oh, and if anyone can explain to me why the “New Subscription”s stay unread, it would relieve quite a bit of insanity that I’m currently experiencing.

By: David

David — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 20:22:33 +0000

I agree. Disappointing. Slow is not the word. That I assume they can fix. The UI will take a lot of fixing. It’s utterly a mess. Not what I expect from Google. I just sat looking at it not understanding what it wanted me to do. I’ll stick with Bloglines.

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 20:06:46 +0000

I personally found it very disappointing.

It’s clunky, slow, the UI makes no sense to me and it’s sorting and navigation makes it the most unintuitive RSS reader I’ve used.

I’ll stick with Bloglines.

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 18:44:28 +0000

Vinu -

“How Can I Export My Subscriptions?

From the My Feeds page, click the Edit link at the top of the left panel. There will be a link to export your subscriptions in OPML format.”

Once you see xml on your browser, just save as whatever.opml

By: Vinu

Vinu — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 18:16:25 +0000

I have a quick Q first - how do I export the feeds from bloglines??

I use flickr feeds a lot and bloglines does a good job of it. g reader is a lot slower!!

Also all the lines in a post don’t come when i am reading - is this because of RSS or atom??

I am a high end user in a way - i subscribe to 175 feeds - aroun 20 of them flickr. I also spend 70% of my time on the net using RSS.

Hence will have to think twice before I move to G reader … I am not ready to put in the effort to do it manuall! but the ADVANTAGE of having a search engines & readers integrated as a service. This is defintely something Google has an advantage.

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 17:22:21 +0000

Alex, I know you were kidding. It’s a great video by the way.

By: Alexander Muse

Alexander Muse — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 13:22:55 +0000

Mike - actually just kidding about missing the conference - the hallway track was great too - I kept trying to catch up with you - maybe next time… I did get to talk to Fred…

By: O.J.

O.J. — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 10:11:42 +0000

I agree, I see a lot of potential coming out from this Google Reader, but it has a long way to go. Over the past week I’ve been using http://www.netvibes.com as my RSS Aggregator, I like the interface with this a bit better than Google’s, also I like how a particular entry is opened in a box that overlays the page but doesn’t open a new browser window. It doesn’t have fancy features like flagging/searching yet.

Posted on TechCrunch: http://www.techcrunch.com/2005.....-homepage/

By: Razvan Antonescu

Razvan Antonescu — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 08:49:22 +0000

well…in fact:

- it has a refresh button to check feeds, Bloglines doesn’t
- click subscriptions and click on blogs and get new posts (complicated when you have a large number of feeds i admit)
- a comment before already said that it has unsubscribe

What it must add is a search function within new and old posts. I think that they have the capacity to store feeds and that’s not an issue

Overall an original G product. I am pretty happy with it

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 01:18:26 +0000

I like the idea of a third pane too. Alex - you obviously don’t understand that the action at a conference always occurs in the hallways.

By: Alexander Muse

Alexander Muse — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 00:18:36 +0000

It does not take my full OPML file. It seems slow and error prone right now. I think it might be seeing a lot of usage - slowing it down. Oh, Mike since you missed most of the conference you should check out the video:

http://texasvc.weblogswork.com/?p=279