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Google Launches Google Reader at Web 2.0
Darren writes "Google Reader, an online RSS reader, is currently being demo'd at the Web 2.0 conference. It apparently 'makes it easier to keep up with your ever-expanding reading list of content from across the web.' Here's the tour about how it works."
But does it run on my old Web 1.0 system?
I'm not upgrading until at least Web 2.1.
there's more than one way to do me.
It's active now, but man, is it slow!
It's "PLOAF," not "P-LOAF." Ask about it.
Very. Very. Very slow. It imports nested OPML, however.
If you add a feed, it just sits saying saying "Loading" with the google labs logo.
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This day shall live in infamy!
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There's an easter egg, if you subscribe to Apple's Hot News RSS -feed.
Its not slow.
Somebody subscribed the reader to www.google.com/reader/rss and now its dissapeared up its own arse.
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I'm guessing their 10k cluster was probably underused when they started off with just basic search and indexing as their primary functions. Over time, they brainstormed over how else to put their massive resources to use. But now that they've released a large number of presumably *very* resource-intensive services, and are supporting an evergrowing number of users, I wonder if this Slashdotting is a sign of things to come.
Some of their resource intensive services that come to mind (probably in a decreasing order of hogginess):
1. Search/Indexing.
2. Google Earth.
3. Google Maps.
4. Gmail/Google Groups/Blog
5. Google Video (lower because of low usership currently).
6. Google Images.
7. Other assorted stuff.
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RSS saves me time. I absorb less garbage stimuli (ads, images, meandering sites) and I can put my limitied time and energy into the things that truly interest me. I am a fan of RSS and cant wait to see if Google can serve it up simply to those who recoil at another intimidating internet acronym.
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Geez. It almost crashed my browser >:(
"hey, could you pass me a paper towel? er.. I mean... DEPLOY ABSORBTION PANEL!"
I have spend some time on my own little feed reader (check out Orangoo.com. And testing Googles feed reader, I really feel mine is better for actually reading feeds ;-)
;)
- It is very simple and made for reading feeds - - not finding them. It uses some Ajax to make the interface more dynamic.
- It supports all versions of RSS + Atom.
- It keeps the count on what items you have read
- Bookmark items with del.icio.us
- It's made with Python
- and more
Try it out! Here is a screenshot: http://www.orangoo.com/static/screenshot.png
The whole point of RSS is so that aggregators can spindle, fold, mutilate, and (gasp) read it. If you want to force people to come to your site, just don't have RSS, or have a feed with only headlines.
As for creative graphic design, the Web isn't print.
My first impressions? It's excrucuatingly slow, counter intuitive, and just generally sucks the big one. I mean if the future of "Web 2.0 is an animated Loading... dialog, then I'll just stick with 1.0 thankyou very much.
Seriously, it troubles me that in the rush to AJAXify everything, we seem to be going back to dialup days just when everything was starting to run smoothly on broadband. Sure I can load a 1000 element javascript array and do sorting and searching on the client side, but with today's connections and server hardware, what's the big deal with a page refresh?
Google reader vs Bloglines illustrates this brilliantly.
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So when is Google going to release a web-based web browser?
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Um, that's the whole point of online RSS readers. If a blog doesn't want you to read their news without visiting their site, then they shouldn't publish an RSS feed. The caching is actually a nice benefit as it decreases the number of repeated hits to your feed. bloglines has been doing this for a while. If a site wants to publish a feed but also wants advertising revenue they can insert ads in their feed or only publish a short portion of the entry in the feed so that someone has to go to the site to see the rest.
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If Google is caching all the blogs locally so that readers never have to visit a blog site, Google is robbing the bloggers and other site's off their advertising revenue, not to mention the fact that Google is robbing the readers off the experience of seeing good creative graphic design of other sites by showing content in its crappy looking interface.
Boo Hoo. Squid caches things locally too. Your browser caches things locally and a second user might never actually visit the site. Pop-up blockers and browsing with Lynx both deprive sites of ad revenue too, it is not Google's problem. Robbing people of the experience of seeing the great graphic design?!? I really hope you are joking.
..... For Ballmer to throw a chair across the room.
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The interface stinks. I much prefer BlogLines.
Windows open and close much faster. In my OS X dock, the Safari icon hardly has a chance to bounce more than once before the web loads right up. I don't know what Google has done "under the hood," but Web 2.0 is TONS better than Web 1.0.
The only thing which doesn't work faster is Orkut, which chugs along and randomly barfs server errors just as always.
Anyway: thanks, Google! That's twice you've Changed Everything (tm) this week!
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As memory, storage, and bandwith increase, the available room always gets filled. The question is in how we fill it. To me it seems that in an increasingly mobile, always-on Internet, there will still be factors militating in favor of bandwidth-optimized applications. Although as the user experience becomes "richer" the bandwidth requirements will necessarily increase. The trick is finding the balance between necessary elements of a good user experience, and fluffy code that does nothing to enhance that experience.
Read the EFF's Fair Use FAQ
So put ads in your article, that way they come out with the feed.
I will not have an RSS Reader that is not on my own computer. How would I use it if I were to lose connectiv...
Oh, hell.