Recently I have found that my list of regular websites that I like to visit everyday has been getting longer and longer. So I started looking into RSS Feed aggregators to automatically monitor my favorite websites for me, and make it much easier to view the results. Google reader has matured into an awesome application, which fits the bill very well.

This is a review of the Labs version of Google reader. Applications in Google Labs are not considered by Google to be ready for full release and use, so they are probably missing features, and functionality that will be added at the time of it’s full release. So this article is a just look at the early release.

What is Google Reader?

Google Reader is a RSS Feed Aggregator, which is basically a program that pulls data from multiple sources automatically and displays that data all in one place. In this case the data being aggregated are posts on all your favorite websites. These programs allow you to quickly read articles on many websites all at one without having to visit each website individually.

When you first login to Google Reader there is not much there, you have to add feeds to it before anything will happen. If you are using Firefox then adding feeds is incredibility easy, just browse to your favorite website and click on the little orange