Bloglines launches new design
Bloglines presented some days ago a new design for its well known feed reader, making extensive use of AJAX, and providing several new features, such as a customizable start page and multiple read view options (full, headlines only and e-mail style).
I have been using Bloglines for about three years now, and while I have tested in the meantime other feed readers, I haven't found another one as good as Bloglines. Granted, from time to time, you get the Bloglines Plumber for a few minutes, but its interface has been always the user friendliest.
One of the feed readers I have tried is Google Reader, and I've never felt comfortable with it. Bloglines was the most used web-based feed reader until Google Reader surpassed it some time ago. Apart from the fact that Google Reader has more users is because it comes from Google, Bloglines hasn't been updated at all in a long time, which probably has made them lose users.
The new Bloglines Beta is obviously inspired in Google Reader, for instance, having the mark as read as you are reading the post feature (if you have used Google Reader you know what I mean), which is sometimes annoying.
My conclusion is that while the new Bloglines Beta has a much better design, it is maybe losing its simplicity which has always worked well for them.
I have been using Bloglines for about three years now, and while I have tested in the meantime other feed readers, I haven't found another one as good as Bloglines. Granted, from time to time, you get the Bloglines Plumber for a few minutes, but its interface has been always the user friendliest.
One of the feed readers I have tried is Google Reader, and I've never felt comfortable with it. Bloglines was the most used web-based feed reader until Google Reader surpassed it some time ago. Apart from the fact that Google Reader has more users is because it comes from Google, Bloglines hasn't been updated at all in a long time, which probably has made them lose users.
The new Bloglines Beta is obviously inspired in Google Reader, for instance, having the mark as read as you are reading the post feature (if you have used Google Reader you know what I mean), which is sometimes annoying.
My conclusion is that while the new Bloglines Beta has a much better design, it is maybe losing its simplicity which has always worked well for them.
