Google Reader sorts the feeds alphabetically which is probably the natural way of sorting news feeds. Once the user begins to move feeds around by dragging and dropping them to another location the sorting turns from alphabetical to one that does not sort the feeds at all but adds new feeds at the bottom of [...]

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I switched to Google Reader after using various other online RSS News Feed Readers like Netvibes, desktop applications and Firefox extensions. I would say it is the best overall news reader that I tried so far but it is having a few quirks that annoy the hell out of me.
The first thing that I was [...]

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If you want to unsubscribe a feed in Google Reader you have to click on the Feed Settings pulldown menu and select Unsubscribe from the list. After that a confirmation dialog appears asking you if you really want to unsubscribe from that feed. If you subscribe to feed regularly or want to clean up your feeds you are in for a solid clicking frenzy.

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Readburner looks like a mashup of Digg, Techmeme and Delicious somehow on first glance but it is actually something completely different. The website aggregates shared items from Google Reader displaying those that have been shared on their pages. The service lives under the assumption that quality news stories get shared while those with lesser quality do not.

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To me it really seems like Google is integrating everything they have. In the end they will just have one app, named GOOGLE and it will do everything from sending emails, sharing photos, making the dinner and flushing the toilet. Of course this is web 2.0, so you will be able to geotag and share [...]

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