Google has done it again! Google reader is a feed reader unlike any other feed reader I have seen. The UI is crisp and slick ! It has AJAX powered UI (as everything else has today). You can search for content using a ‘Search for new Content’ button and then subscribe to your favorite feeds.
Once the subscriptions are added to your Reader, you can navigate to ‘Your Subscriptions’, which shows you the following UI.
Clicking on a different post offcourse shows the content of that post, with a nice slider effect on the left side, moving the slider to the current post header. At the bottom of the post, you are shown the labels the post author has used to tag his/her post. You can add your own tags to this post, to make searching easier through your subscribed blogs. This is another way of grouping posts from different blogs under one tag to search & retrieve them at a later point in time.
You can label your feeds to group them together. Selecting a feed changes the UI at the bottom, to get all the new posts from the blog on the left side, with a nice slider effect on the posts, and the post content on the right side. The UI is shown as follows:
So far my experience has been going wonderful—>ok. The service seems a bit slow at the moment. Could be the high hitting traffic. Sometimes the system just stays on with a layer saying ‘loading…’. I am sure this is something I am using for next day or two and getting the best out of it, and then decide on long term usage.
Om Malik has his thoughts on it…
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Honestly I really needed some RSS reader, good it is browser based, just last day only I was see’g if I can add my RSS feeds in yahoo 360 as I didn’t like much of my yahoo experience, but no lucks there too, so was kinda delighted by news, but experience was not so good and I couldn’t make it working until and unless I took the tour, so UI design I would say is not really very good, looks like they have launched something in hurry…