Feed Readers

I use Bloglines as my RSS reader of choice and have used it as my only feed reader for almost two years now. Its simple and lets me read my subscriptions without getting in my way. Off late, they seem to have upgraded the service with some fancy little changes to the feed tree on the left pane. They’ve also decreased the time for automatic updates so that you need’nt press the “r” hotkey to refresh your feed. I’d just like the font size on the left pane to increase a bit (back to what it was earlier). But anyway, I’m happy with these incremental improvements to my most visited site on the web.

On a related note, Google Reader has undergone some pretty interesting UI improvements. It looks a lot more like Bloglines now. The best part is the Gmail-like inbox view listing titles of the selected feed, although it appears a little sluggish with all the Ajax. It would be interesting to see where this is heading.