Just a few days after posting about the new Bloglines beta and how it was nice to re-discover their search your feeds feature, Google announced that they’ve finally added a search box to their Reader.
I’m staying with Bloglines right now for the novelty of it but I’ve noticed;
- Things that get marked “read” don’t seem to always stay that way, still trying to figure out the pattern
- I’m missing not having a decent mobile access (i.bloglines.com doesn’t really do it for me) to read feeds on the go
Competition is a wonderful motivator. There was a whole lot of hoopla around the Google Reader API that was going to allow developers to extend Google Reader in all sorts of intersesting ways. Niall Kennedy did a whole dissection of the API and reverse engineered the Google Reader so people could see how it was put together. That was in December 2005 – now I can only find one example of a product that uses this promised but yet to be released API. I guess things got re-prioritized – we’ve all been there.
At least there is OPML which makes it easy to jump around. It sure is nice to have the freedom to experiment and walk if something better comes along.
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