Google just launched an update to it’s google reader for reading rss feeds. I remember trying their first reader and it was straight-up terrible. This one is a huge improvement. Literally, these guys took all the things that annoy me about bloglines and fixed it.
First off, it marks articles as “read” once you scroll past them. In bloglines, it marks all the articles read as soon as you the page loads. So if you can’t finish the page, you have to go through the tedious exercise of marking each unread article as “unread” or marking them all “unread”. Next up, really good keyboard shortcuts. “j” for next story, “k” for previous story, and “v” to open the original story in a new tab.
My only real complaint is that there’s something I don’t like about the color scheme, but I don’t know what. I’m going to give this reader a try but I think I’ve found a successor to bloglines.
I like the new reader. Even without the shortcuts, I’m still getting used to using shortcuts in webapps. I’ve already subscribed to AwardTour :)
If you’re browsing around, you should check out the new a9.com that went up today. The interface is 100 times better than before.
ya, there’s no way i’m going back to bloglines now. way to go google, you now know even more about me!
I’m trying it out, but I find it so much slower than bloglines. I like the way it doesn’t mark stuff as read till you pass over it. That’s very cool.