lifehacker gives a review on the new Google Reader that I’ve been touting for some time. For you Bloglines people:
- Google Reader lacks hideous Bloglines teal bar (although you can remove that with a Greasemonkey script — I mentioned Greasemonkey the last time I was touting Firefox
) - Google Reader on “startup” shows summaries of the most recent/new posts (as opposed to Bloglines which shows you random stuff)
- Google Reader lacks Bloglines’ 200 unread per feed limit (after you hit 200, it doesn’t store any more)
- Google Reader pre-fetches posts so the reading is a lot smoother
- Google Reader has a gmail-inspired body preview
- Google Reader has built-in support for tags (as opposed to folders)
Not to mention the other benefits I’ve been advocating
- Google Reader integrates with all the other world of Google (using the Personalized Gmail extension for Firefox, I put a Google Reader control in my gmail so I can quickly jump to my feeds from within gmail)
- Quicksilver-like keyboard shortcut interface
- Easy publicizing/sharing/aggregation scheme (ie my “noteworthy tag” feed which I link to pretty regularly)