Bloglines Beta Redesign

August 31, 2007

Earlier this week, Bloglines released a beta to its popular web based RSS reader. Bloglines has had the same look and feel now going on two years, so it is really good to see something finally come from the company. I have been a long time user of Google Reader, which I came to from Bloglines some two years ago. At the time Google Reader was a breath of fresh air, and offered better interaction when gong through my RSS feeds. Now, in trying the beta of Bloglines this week, I am strongly thinking about switching back. The new UI is slick, and offers some great views when reading RSS feeds. The beta is a little slow, but I am sure that they are getting a ton of traffic from the PR blitz this week. For some time it has looked like Google Reader had become more popular than Bloglines, but Read/WriteWeb crunches the real numbers.

Luckily for users like me looking to switch back, you can easily import and export your OPML file from service to service. The beta looks promising, and hopefully it will not be beta for some ungodly amount of time; like most betas these days.