Google Reader as an blog reader

Lately I've been looking into Google Reader and I have to say that I am impressed. This is one very useful tool.

For a while ago I wrote an article where I talked about syndication of feeds. Google Reader is one product that is really good at collecting and presentation. A few key features are:

• Mobile reader that is fast.
• GUI for Windows that is readable and easy to use.
• You can share good articles easily by sharing them or give them a star.
• You can share folders (tags) so you can collect and republish blogs that your group (work, hobbies etc) find interesting.

Sharing specific articles

There are two ways to do so. With Google Reader you can give an article an star, or you can share it. You can see my shared page here or you can embed it into your webpage as seen below.

The GUI

The web page looks nice and is easy to work with. You can find screen shots at Wikipedia.

Mobile access

It's to work with and fast as well. For me, I can read whenever I got a spare minute now.

Republish folders

Or tags, as Google chooses to call them. Look at my development folder here. This is all news, not the articles I found interesting as mentioned above. You can also embed this into your page if you want.

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Tags: google reader, syndication, aggregation, web 2.0