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Google Reader

For some time now I've been looking for a way to share a central list of RSS feed bookmarks between my home computer (iMac G5) and my work laptop (Powerbook G4). I keep track of several RSS feeds each day in my quest of staying in the loop with open source development, web marketing, and internet news. What I was finding is that I was reading more RSS feeds during the evenings on my home computer in addition to catching up on feeds over lunch while at the office. The problem was that I was adding new feeds to each computer without any way of conveniently sharing feeds.

Enter Google Reader. I now can manage a central source of RSS feeds no matter where I'm at, all through my Google account. I no longer have to use another app (I was using Vienna for Mac OS X) to keep up with my feeds. This too was always a gripe for me because I would forget to leave Vienna open and would go a day or two without reading feeds. Now I have web-based access to a central RSS feed list for everything I want to keep on top of.

Furthermore, I can also log into my RSS feeds in Google with my BlackBerry. And, if I read a feed at work on one machine, it's automatically marked as "read" on any other machine I view feeds on, including my BlackBerry. I no longer have to worry about re-reading feeds I've already looked at due to the shared feed list I can now use through Google Reader.