Comments on: Google Reader

By: Overwhelmed With Joy!

Overwhelmed With Joy! — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:33:49 +0000

How does one go about adding your RSS feed to increase traffic?

By: Marco Raaphorst

Marco Raaphorst — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 07:24:21 +0000

I noticed the speeds has gone upwards. It’s really excellent now. For podcast-feeds it brilliant.

http://melodiefabriek.nl/audio/rss/feed.xml

By: Candy Addict

Candy Addict — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 15:25:20 +0000

When I gave it a spin, it was way too slow for me. I added almost 50 feeds from an OPML file and ti was just too slow to be usable. Maybe it was just launch-time slowness.

Brian
http://candyaddict.com

By: Lester

Lester — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 21:18:18 +0000

Whether it’s a good RSS reader or not, I just added my feed this morning hoping it will increase traffic to my site.

By: Marguerite Jasmin

Marguerite Jasmin — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 19:13:49 +0000

You can also read feeds with Google Desktop though it may not be the most practical way to do that.

By: John (SYNTAGMA)

John (SYNTAGMA) — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 16:32:21 +0000

Why do I always love the UI of Google web apps?

By: ~dawn

~dawn — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 15:32:51 +0000

I don’t find it as user-friendly as bloglines, personally.

By: Cormac

Cormac — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 11:27:18 +0000

I found it very disappointing, coming from Google. Feed readers have been around for quite a few years and they’re already slow to jump on the bandwagon, so one would have hoped they would do something innovative to make it stand out. Apart from a slightly fancy javascript scroll, it’s rather awkward to use. Why click to read each article summary separately? It would be easier to just read the front page of that site.

Having tried many obvious ones, I finally settled on the utterly obscure Lektora (Lektora.com). I can sit back with my wireless mouse in my lap and use only the scrollwheel to read through all my categorised article summaries; or just my techie section or just my Asia News section. If you use a tabbed browser, it opens full articles in new tab instead of a new window – much faster. Oh, and if a site has no feed it can add it to your reading list anyway.

(I’m not affliated with the software owners, it’s just honestly the only feed reader that works the way I want it to.)

By: theaardvark

theaardvark — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 10:55:01 +0000

I can’t get it to work in Firefox at the moment….. :-(

By: Elle

Elle — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 10:29:15 +0000

How do people include a url in a comment like the one above?

By: Marco Raaphorst

Marco Raaphorst — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 09:17:29 +0000

Darren, have you seen how great it works on mp3-feeds, or podcast-feeds. Check my mp3-feed http://melodiefabriek.nl/audio/rss/feed.xml for example.

For musician like me, this reader is great.

By: Quick Online Tips

Quick Online Tips — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 09:11:49 +0000

A faster way is to export Bloglines feeds to Google Reader.

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 07:59:39 +0000

thanks Devin

By: Devin

Devin — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 07:25:34 +0000

Psst, missed an ‘r’ in the URL.