October 11th, 2005 by Jemaleddin Cole

Dear Google,

You know, after all of the free ser­vices you’ve given me over the years, I have to say that it would be down­right ungrate­ful of me to go telling you about all of the other things you ought to give me. So instead, I’ll ask nicely.

I LOVE Google Reader. I don’t care what any­body thinks; I want the world to know. When I was com­par­ing it to Blog­lines, I kept think­ing, “Well, it doesn’t have a lot of the fea­tures I like – maybe I’ll stick with Bloglines.” I was so wrong.

Not that it has the fea­tures I want, mind you. But it works so well, that I don’t care. I feel like I can browse through my feeds so much quicker, and read them so much easier that I don’t care that I can’t view entries grouped by feed. I don’t care that I’m get­ting dupli­cate entries. I don’t care that it doesn’t give me any real idea of how many remain­ing entries I have to read. It is that pleas­ing to use.

But here’s the thing: I would really appre­ci­ate a noti­fier or two. You guys already have noti­fiers for Mac and Win­dows – how hard would it be to add in sup­port for Google Reader?

And have you seen the Blog­lines Exten­sion for Fire­fox? That’s handy. It could use some sim­pli­fi­ca­tion, but it works won­der­fully. I love being able to sub­scribe to a feed with a right-​click. And I love being able to tell not just that I have new entries to be read, but how many there are. So let’s have one of those as well. Cool?

Oh, and port Picasa to the Mac when you get a chance. I’m not happy with iPhoto. Thanks.

Sin­cerely,

Jemal

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