During the past week, I’ve come across 3 incredibly innovative RSS readers: t3h Blox0r at www.bloxor.com, Google Reader at www.google.com/reader, and Winksite at www.winksite.com.
Each has some very distinguished and powerful features: t3h Blox0r has a Javascript driven user-interface, and doesn’t require any personal information, not even an email address, to open an account! Google Reader has its own Google kind of innovation; the one I’ve noticed is the aggregated reading by date/time, aside from the clean-cut UI. Then there’s winksite – the RSS reader and do-it-all portal for mobile phones! Very handy!
I’m trying them all out, willing to make that change, if it offers enough improvement over my current web-based RSS reader, Bloglines. With over 550 blogs in my subscription, I’m sad to say that I no longer have enough time, or energy, to keep up with all of them. I’m lucky to skim 5 blogs a day now.
I’m using Rojo now, after using Bloglines for a few years. Rojo is slightly Ajaxed, and has an excellent tag system for organizing feeds.
It also lets you tag individual posts as you read, without changing the page you’re on – the tag box occurs in each post, and sends via Ajax (Asynchronous Javascript & XML).
I tried Google Reader a few days ago, and found it very slow. But it has potential if Google will throw some more server resources into it.