Comments on: Google Reader

By: Mark Shead

Mark Shead — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:41:20 +0000

@Ellie – Interesting. Personally I don’t mind the extra click so it isn’t a big deal to me. I’m impressed that someone came up with a way around the decision page though.

@Ameyjah – Looks like a nice app, but it doesn’t look like there is anyway to view it from a mobile device and keep everything synched. If you only read your feeds at a single computer, it might be a good option.

My reason for switching to Google Reader is the fact that I can go through my feeds with any computer from my Blackberry to my desktop and I won’t run into duplicate feeds when I switch devices.

By: ameyjah

ameyjah — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:45:40 +0000

Hey loved your review. I used google reader a lot before I personally came across Feedreader, because of it's robustness it just rocks.

By: Ellie

Ellie — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 04:19:39 +0000

Read this post about how to subscribe to feeds with Google Reader without facing the Google Homepage/Google Reader page. (link)

By: Jeff Singfiel

Jeff Singfiel — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 13:22:34 +0000

Thanks for the comparison. I’m running a similar experiment with Newsgator and Google Reader. Newsgator similarly syncs between multiple platforms. It also handles search pretty well.

I’m a little surprised that Google has missed some of these things…especially search.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:45:33 +0000

If you go to Manage your subscriptions you can add multiple tags to each individual feed, and each existing tag becomes its own folder. I use this to make a less-than-smart-feed equivalent. Say I have one folder of feeds on productivity, and a second folder of feeds on tech news – I have another for feeds ‘frontline’ for anything I want to read immediately containing a subset of each.

As a bonus, I have that folder set as my start page (set it in manage subscriptions – preferences) so I can immediately see what is most important to me.