Darren Beale

I stumbled across the beta Google reader just now and it looks really good.

If you, like me, don’t subscribe to loads of RSS feeds because you
always have too many other apps open and already don’t have enough hours in the day then maybe Google Reader is for you too.

Here’s how they describe it:

Spend your time reading what you care about most
Reader automatically gets the latest news and updates for your favorite sites. You can sort your reading list by relevance, which will guess what’s most relevant to you based on how you use Google Reader (such as which items you decide to actually read).

So it’s a combined feed with fuzzy logic, categories, starring (like Gmail) and some - shock horror - Ajaxy stuff.

All the clever stuff to one side a simple thing that makes it for me is the Google homepage block so I can add it to my personalised homepage. This means there’s a fighting chance that I might actually read some of the items when I’m happening to open a browser window.

http://www.google.co.uk/reader