Google Reader is a web-based newsreader which takes some of the solid simplicity of Google plus the AJAX goodness of Gmail and rolls things together for an almost good thing.
If you read a few feeds, I can see really liking this. I was able to import my full OPML file (which I use through Newsgator, NNW and Bloglines) and while it imported smoothly (even over GPRS on the train) I am not too psyched with how my feeds are displayed. I’m used to folders by topic with feeds rolled up within. Google Reader took my folders and applied their names as tags to the feeds listed. I frankly don’t like this at all given the numbeer of subscriptions I manage.
I really like how easy it is to navigate about and think they’ve nailed that piece. I’d like to see things go further actually and get more sophisticated.
Feedlounge – which I still can’t get access to – seems to offer desktop parity in browser which would be nice. I’m torn between wanting NNW and not being able to use it on a PC so instead I am making sacrifices to maintain sync compatibility through the Web UI.