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."

Comments

Interesting

[rebug]

But does it run on my old Web 1.0 system?

I'm not upgrading until at least Web 2.1.

The impossible dream!

[darkmeridian]

Dare we dream the impossible? Do my eyes see correctly? Slashdot has vanquished the mighty Google, who lies slain by our feet!

This day shall live in infamy!

Re:Slashdotted?

[LiquidCoooled]

Its not slow.
Somebody subscribed the reader to www.google.com/reader/rss and now its dissapeared up its own arse.

A sign of things to come?

[GillBates0]

While it's well known that Google has an ub3r loadsharing cluster of 10k+ machines, running a custom version of Linux, and probably many more mini-clusters distributed around the globe, I wonder how much more CPU load they can really take.

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.

RSS For The Great Unwashed?

[Oynk]

I hope that this will help me to explain the value of RSS to my non-tech inclined friends and family. RSS has completely changed my web experience, again. When tabs arrived I had a simliar experience. I felt more empowered to manage my own web experience. Eventually I was auto-loadind 30 or more tabs. I was drowning again...until I caught on to RSS.

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.

O.

You must be new here

[Wesley Felter]

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.

So...

[HunterZ]

So when is Google going to release a web-based web browser?

I upgraded to Web 2.0

[kitzilla]

I upgraded to Web 2.0, and -- wow -- the web really feels quite a bit snappier now!

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!