After 3 weeks of using Google Reader, I can honestly say that I’m not looking back.
The App is just so damn inteligent. The other day I read a shared Doc Searls post via Robert Scoble’s link blog. Not only was the post in the Link blog marked as read. But the same post in my seperate Doc Searls feed was marked read as well. Amazing. Its these small, hardly noticable, under publicised but highly valuble features that earn an app a loyal userbase.
We’ll put up with a little less readability in order to share items with other people, in order to see the information on multiple computers and platforms, and the ability to mash up the content with content from other services ala BlogLines, NewsGator, or Google Reader or other RSS aggregators.
There is seriously very little to evern begin complaining about GoogleReader.
Perhaps integrated blogging with your own blog (they don’t even do Blogger!) in the form of a “Blog This” button. Google should seriously think about this. If they want to become the worlds [Personalised] Homepage, they can do alot more.
The only sour note, if you can call it that, are people who use partial text feeds ( forgive the mixed tenses – I’m worked up about this 🙂 ). It drives me insane. Perhaps I should just unsubscribe?
The good thing about the whole Google experiance is that the page updates as if its a thick client application running localy – emails and all. I’d love to see the framework that makes it possible.
Random Musings 