The Official Google Blog is on my regular reading list as I tend to find their solutions to problems interesting. Today's post announced the latest feature in Google Labs: Google Reader.
This came just at the moment I was in the midst of switching back over to Firefox because the 1.5 Beta is nifty. Thus, I was losing one of the browser features I like in Safari, which is the RSS reader. I'm afraid that the Sage RSS for Firefox doesn't really suit me. Thus, I was ripe for something else to try.
The interface itself is a bit too much. It looks nice, but it stutters a bit, and not everything is linked up quite right. The OPML import was nice, because I was able to export my Sage RSS in OPML and then import it into Google Reader without any difficulty. However, I added a couple more feeds and the way subscriptions are added is a little disorienting. It took me a couple tries to figure it out. Also, when I added a label to a feed I added in one place, that label wasn't applied. I had to edit the feed using the link up top to get the labels working. If you want something with the same polish as GMail, don't use Google Reader. It's not there yet. We'll see how I like it in a few days.
One of these days, I'll probably take the time to setup Jesse's BlogBucket, since it looks pretty sweet.
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