Saturday, April 14, 2007

G Reader Rocking

The idea of marrying email-like functionality with news readers like atom, xml, rss, etc... seems to be a big killer app as evidened by the new Google Reader. Judging by my first impressions of porting over My Google content to the GReader, software incompatibility is starting to seem as antiquated as the horse and buggy. Props to the G Entities.

My old "My Google":
















Now! Enter Google Reader
Migrating same content to Reader (waaay more usable evidenced by this single "initial state" of the app) -



Dayam..talk about situational awareness. Before I was suffering from Tofflerian info overload but the Reader app seems to really alleviate this dilemma.

Does Google need flex to achieve the same kind of rich internet apps and seamless production flow? I'm not really sure but their stuff seems to be faster than anything else (not even going into maps, etc..).

Seems that since they've built their own javascript/xml/css/xml-style sheet/declarative syntax framework, they have hit the interoperability and rapid deployment nirvana state.

I humble before the power of Google. Most of my subscriptions are traditional media outlets (other than the development-related stuff,) but just imagine tons of conspiracy crazy feeds, alternative energy feeds, political and futurist feeds ready to facilitate societal activism and and the inevitable downside of facscist, socialists, & terrorist networking that will ensue. This must be how mac and 60's hippies felt the coming paradigm shift about the occur. Imagine, the multimedia capabilities of something like Reader and it's potential usurping of traditional media outlets.

Shit, I could go on but no one listening, not yet anyway.

L8R,
CEL