Posted in Google Reader on June 25th, 2007 3 Comments »
In some unexpected news, I woke up this morning and found that Google Reader was not working. The site itself is still working- I was able to login and to view the titles of my feed, but the only unread items were 8 posts from Memeorandum. After browsing through those I tried to refresh the [...]
Posted in Gmail, Google Reader, the web on June 1st, 2007 No Comments »
Google Gears is a lot more than an offline version of Reader. Yeah, that’s totally awesome but it has much larger implications than that. I won’t get into it all here, because a lot of people have already done an excellent job of explaining it.
For the best post out there I would check out ZDnet’s [...]
Posted in Google Reader on April 3rd, 2007 No Comments »
While Google’s Reader is arguably the best RSS reader currently available, there are still some issues that have to be addressed. One of these that is not particularly pressing, but that I would have thought Google could have fixed it immediately concerns duplicate posts and feeds.
Though it seems like it would be relatively simple to [...]
Posted in Google Reader on March 29th, 2007 No Comments »
A brief glimpse into my reading habits. Google Reader reports:
From your 118 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 20,008 items, starred 17 items, and shared 0 items.
Eek, that is a lot of reading. Well, much of that was skimming, but I definitely spent [...]
Posted in Google Reader on March 15th, 2007 No Comments »
Google is making small upgrades to its services all the time and most go unnoticed by users. These tweaks, unlike the major revisions, are kept under the radar and are sometimes not even covered on their blog. From time to time and slowly improve tools like Gmail and Reader in a way that is user-friendly and [...]
Posted in Google Reader on March 8th, 2007 10 Comments »
This is probably not the first time you have heard this, and it definitely won’t be the last- Google Reader is the best RSS reader available right now. There are a few good alternatives but currently Reader is far ahead of the pack.
This is not to say that Reader is perfect though, there is still [...]
Posted in Google Reader, me, the web on February 27th, 2007 No Comments »
It’s official- I have completely moved my RSS reading over to Google Reader. For a months now I have resisted moving away from my desktop reader, RSS Bandit, and while I still believe it to be the best desktop reader (so long as you are looking for something light weight with no web counterpart), despite [...]
