Blog Reader

Four years ago while still pursuing my postgraduate degree, i was introduced to the word "blog" at school not as a tool to replace traditional personal diary, but the technology that builts it, RSS. To me, it is just another type of markup language offshoot from its parent XML, and grandparent, SGML.

Fast forward, blogging today has gone mainstream and exploded to not only remains as diary, but can even generate monetary rewards out of it, thanks to our search engine big brother Google.

While i still consider myself as dummy to blogging (hehe, i am pretty late to the game now), i have learnt to become an expert in scouting first hand technology news. Windows Vista or previously called codename Longhorn, for example, was not widely known until a blogger, started talking about this piece of product even in its infancy. Screenshots of Vista's UI were shown to the public for the first time and made geeks like me over excited on how beautiful it can be and no longer bow to MacOS X.

Till today, i have a list of close to 100 feeds that i keep track daily. It used to take me so much time, going thru site by site just to see if there is any update. Thanks to my new found love, i no longer need to do that anymore.

Let me introduce you to the coolest tool after Gmail, Google Reader aka RSS feeds aggregator. As the name implies, once you have registered a list of your favourite feeds, it will periodically tracks/aggregates any new posting and display it in a Web 2.0/AJAX powered user interface.

With this tool, i can read thousands of blogs and still be able to work efficiently. Cool hey? Do check it out here



Note: And yes, i am a Google fan. :o)