Friday, October 06, 2006

Google Reader vs. Bloglines


Lifehacker has a great review comparing Bloglines to Google Reader:


Every day I trawl through almost 250 web site feeds in order to write Lifehacker, and for the past 2 years the tool I've used to do that is Bloglines. No other feed reader (not even the one I helped build) had all the features I needed to track what I'd read and what I hadn't across computers and operating systems.

That is, until I gave Google Reader another whirl earlier this week. The just-rolled-out Reader upgrades turned the app into an even better product than the much older and more-established Bloglines, and so I've made the switch.


Read the whole thing!

It's a piece of cake to export your blog subscriptions from one service to the other, so I'd recommend trying out both. I'm pleased with how competition is forcing both of them to innovate and the benefits we're seeing from this.

I've also been using Bloglines for many moons now. I just exported my subscriptions into Google Reader and like what I see. I'm going to try using this for a few days and figure out if I'm ready to make the switch too.

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