Google Reader - Innovate or die.

An RSS addict for many years, I have a ton of feeds, and since around late 2002 I carted around these feeds from app to app. It's always been key to my research, work, updates, and connection points with friends around the world. I was a faithful Bloglines boy for many years as Google had no entry in this reader space. And when they finally did join, it was quite unusable. Earlier this year I had seen the writing on the wall (read stagnation) with Bloglines refusal to do any innovation or bug fixes, and jumped ship despite Google reader still not progressing.

I truly settled in in March, ported across all my several hundred feeds, and began to appreciate reader. It was good timing. And in the last three months alone, Google readers team have been innovating like madmen on speed, and adding some intelligent and long overdue social aspects to the tool almost daily it seems. In essence, if you don't innovate in web land, you die in web land.

I've seen 14 new friends also share and join in the last month alone, and pass on and comment on what they like and are reading. If your not on-board yet...do it! It'll save you time, simplify and prioritise your surfing, and allow you to connect and share much more with others good links and information. It's also pretty addictive and has become one of my most used daily sites.

I'm hungry to read what your reading and share more of what I'm reading, so click on the posts title to join in, or if you don't yet have an account a link on the right hand side of that same page to Get started with Google Reader will get you going.

Despite some really, really poor estimation that RSS is dead from TechCrunch earlier this year, and that we shoudl all just use Twitter...( Personally I believe many like me are beginning to get a little tired of Twitters deluge of updates, spam, and Ashton Kutcher/Opera geek wannabes.) RSS it's very much just getting started for the mainstream public, more so now that it comes with facebook like sharing capabilities. Sharing is not dead, is not a fickle 'trend' and is always a good thing in my book. Go get your feed on.