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Google RSS Reader (beta) has arrived, but it currently must be getting pounded with traffic because I received several server errors and major slowdown trying to use it. So much, in fact, that I gave up after about five minutes worth of use.
So we’ve added a new experiment to Google Labs: Google Reader, a service we hope helps you spend more time reading what’s important to you (or is, if you’d prefer, nicely diverting). The Reader team is excited to begin iterating in public, and now that Jason Shellen’s announced it at Web 2.0 we’re excited to get your feedback on this early-stage effort.
Well it’s too soon for any significant feedback because of the slow server response and server errors but I do have a few quick thoughts.
In my brief first look, I noticed that the title labels do not show up along the left hand side in Opera. Seems like some of the coding Google is doing isn’t cross browser compatible for Opera. I made the same comment to Matt Cutts on the “Remove result” function not showing up in Opera (but working fine in IE and Firefox).
IMO designing for Opera now that it is free even though it has small market penetration is advised because they seem to have a very loyal user base. The four important browsers: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Opera should be tested in the labs before rolling out tools like these.
I’ll come back to this one later and import and export some OMPL (I saw they have an OPML import and export) and run it through some checks.
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Trackback by Random Tech Notes — October 7, 2005 @ 5:27 pm PST
It seems to be slow as of now, and generating many errors. I feel that Ajax is being overused, and is causing the errors here.
As of now, I would stick on with FeedFeeds which gives me all the option that I want from an rss reader, like multi level categorising, importing OPML, etc
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