Google Reader gets revamped (also: Bloglines does as little as possible)
Google have revamped their online RSS reader, called Google Reader, and we’€™re talking totally! On a first glance it looks a lot better than the last time I checked out the service, but I really don’€™t know since I’€™m not a Google Reader user. That might change, however ‘€“ I intend to give it a go in the upcoming weeks.
The launch post over at the official Google Reader blog spells it out for you, and gives you a video clip that tells the basics.
In other news, Bloglines are doing as little as possible. By that I mean that they’€™ve cut back on reloading the left frame which is nice, and now they check for feed updates more often. Works good enough for me, being a Bloglines user and all.
Thord Daniel Hedengren is a designer, writer, and blogger, and also the former editor of The Blog Herald. He used to be a hotshot in the gaming industry in Sweden, but sold everything and went International. Most recently he wrote a book called Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog, and does loads of kickass design.
The upgrade of google reader is very reasonable, I think, because the old version could not compete with Opera based feed reader.
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Looks like Google is getting into the blogs in a big way…First the blog search now revamped blog reader…I’ll check it out although I am pretty happy with the bloglines.