RSS & Blog readers

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I have started following the blogs from last few months and I realized the power of Web2.0 features. Within a month, I found 121 blogs to follow in various categories like personal, technical, news updates, arts etc which are really worth reading.



Its just not possible to keep track of all the blogs and check them one by one everyday. There are tools like blog subscriptions, RSS feed readers via mail etc. But some of the sites which really fascinated me are - Google Reader , Bloglines and firefox extensions for RSS . These tools are really helpful to manage your inventory and keep you updated. Each site has its own advantages and disadvantages; I request you too try all and go with the one you like. Google reader and Bloglines are online sites where extensions are local to firefox (although they access internet to check blog updates). If your blogs are very frequently updated then google reader is the best choice as it indexes them very fast. If you want to do updates checking part in background, go for firefox extensions like sage-too , Wizz etc. Bloglines is a mid option.

Try it out and let me know your feedback / additions.

News in new style

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Tired of reading yahoo, google and other news sites ? Or watching television ?

Checkout this :


Google Chrome

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Google is also joining the party. Launching its own web browser - Chrome. They are launching it on Tuesday 2nd Sep i.e. 1st September midnight. Links given on various websites are still not working. May be its just few minutes away.

 
Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management and Linus Upson, engineering director at Google, wrote in a blog post. “What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for web pages and applications, and that's what we set out to build.”. “We improved speed and responsiveness across the board. We also built a more powerful JavaScript engine, V8, to power the next generation of web applications that aren't even possible in today's browsers,” Pichai and Upson wrote. Both emphasized that Chrome isn’t done and may need much more work, so all we should expect is an idea of what Google is working on. “We're releasing this beta for Windows to start the broader discussion and hear from you as quickly as possible. We're hard at work building versions for Mac and Linux too, and will continue to make it even faster and more robust.”

In our mind, the most recent releases of Firefox 3, Opera 9.52 and IE8 may not be perfect, but they are very good browsers with lots of product development, engineering and market experience behind each of them. Google certainly has built up our hopes that it will reveal a browser that can trump all three – and we can’t wait to see if that in fact is the case.
Lets see how it performs against Firefox, Opera, IE, Safari and others... I'll post the links as soon as they are up.

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