Sunday, September 28, 2008

Blog Lines vs Google Reader

Bloglines
  • Web-based RSS reader; Aggregates posts from any site with RSS feed;free service
  • Takes old frame approach with side bar on left things will show up in center RSS written in XML
  • More user friendly organizational structure. A user can easily add a feed to a specified folder during the subscription process
  • Tabbed side bar interface allows a user to easily navigate between feeds, blogs, clippings, and play lists.


Google Reader
  • Web-based RSS reader; Aggregates posts from any site with RSS feed;free service
  • No setup required with google email account
  • Users need to access the "manage subscriptions" area to organize their subscriptions into folders.
  • Ability to easily star/tag feeds.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I was surprised you thought it was easy to add feeds to a specific folder; maybe it's just me being new to bloglines but I thought they made it kind of complicated! Otherwise I'd say we had pretty similar experiences. Good comparison. =)

~Amy

Heather N said...

That was a pretty good comparision. I found the differences between the two to be minor and pretty much up to personal taste as to which one is 'better'.