When it comes to reading RSS feeds, the majority of the people I know (who actually know what RSS is) use a desktop based application, usually something that integrates into Outlook. Up until now I have been just using my Personalized Google homepage, but with the growing number of feeds it has become unpractical and over-consuming of my time.

Just last week Google released an update of Google Reader, their web-based feed reader. It was more of a complete re-design of the application than an update. The previous version was very un-organized and not very user friendly. This is not true of the new version. It lets me group my feeds by subject, read a single feed or group of feeds at the same time, and very cleanly indicates un-read items. It also allows you to share items from all of the feeds you read on your own personal page such as this one, which becomes a blog feed in itself. There are still other features that i have yet to investigate, but all in all I am definitely sold on using this app. as my primary reader. If you’re not looking to switch, I still suggest you take a look as this is a promising example of the future of web-based applications.

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