Google Reader

I'll give this try, subscribe to a few feeds and see how it compairs to the industry standard web reader: Bloglines. Some of it feels a little less intuitive and a little more gimmicky than I might prefer.

You know who I'd like to see make a feed reader? 37signals. A dirt simple bare-bones reader that my parents could use. Or, how about this, what if Gmail went ahead and integrated a reader straight into your email? The controls would be slightly different, the conversations would be one sided, and you'd have unsubscribe and such instead of reply. But I guess you're inbox would get rather cluttered really fast. It would almost need an automatic filter, applying the label "feed" or something, and archiving it. Anyway, just brainstorming how the whole feed reader concept might be made more accessible to the mainstream. Podcasts are making it big with their iTunes integration, maybe feeds need to piggy-back on something as mainstream as email?