Beta Bloglines
I have been devotedly and happily using Google Reader for my RSS feeds for awhile now. But I returned to Bloglines to try out their Beta version of their new feedreader. Mostly I did it just to prove I was using Google Reader for all of the right reasons, but it turns out that instead I found my new favorite feedreader. Now remember, it is a beta version, so if you find things that are missing (like a way to email posts to your friends) you can send them feedback with your suggestions. But even in its beta state you can see the potential. Here are some of my favorite features:
- No longer marks everything read for the feed, but lets your scroll down marking items read or choose to toggle Read on and off.
- Nice choice of three view styles that are set individually for each feed. This is sweet! I can now look at the news headlines feeds just seeing the headlines while feeds with more content and less headlines I can view in Full View.
- The feel is clean and uncluttered. Very nice.
- Feeds are more easily moved from one folder to another by just clicking and dragging, something that Google Reader needs to implement.
- Nice opening screen for the newest entries of your top feeds.
- Works perfectly with your existing Bloglines account, and you can use the old or new versions.
- Now holds more than the previous 200 post limit of the old version.
- Emailing posts should be implemented.
- Easy re-alphabetizing of your feeds within folders.