I’m using Google Reader for quite a while now and am still happy with it. A nice feature is that I can easily share items that I find interesting and valuable to read with others. So if you would like to know what I liked best, either visit the webpage with my recommandations, or subscribe to the feed.
A few moments ago I was browsing on eBay to look for a couple used Wii games as I noticed that you can now subscribe to your search results as a rss feed! Nice feature, way to go, eBay! Apparently this is not available for so long, as this blog from yesterday suggests. Until now not all search options are available as a feed, but which work and which don’t, that you have to find out for yourself, it’s not documented yet.
I wanted to search for “Wii Pangya”, including only games for with the auction ends in the next 4 hours and the highest bid is less than 15€. The search worked fine on the site, although it returned no results, but the RSS listed all items that match “Wii Pangya”. Also the american eBay site had the same problem, although they tend to be quicker to implement new features. I hope this will be added to the search feed soon!
The Headline may be a bit enthusiastic, since I was not using a feedreader until now. I was looking for a simple solution to get new posts from the blogs I’m following without having to visit each and every blog, just to see that there are no new items there. Well, most of you probably know what a feedreader is and what it’s good for already 
So since today, I’m using the Google Reader. From the first impression it looks really usable and slick.
There’s also a Firefox plugin that notifies you of new items to read. When you click on a RSS link in Firefox, it asks you what you want to do with it, if you set Google as your default, then Google asks if you want to add the feed to your personal Google Homepage, or to the Google Reader. If you follow the instructions to default to the Google Reader, you still have to confirm you want to subscribe, so you save no click but loose choice.
The only problem I have right now is that Google Reader is not accepting feeds from Wordpress, which really is a show stopper. Neither my own RSS feed works, nor the one of Carsten Schmidt’s blog, which is hosted on the wordpress.com website. If anybody knows what to do about it, I’d be grateful.
Update (2008-04-11): The problem with Wordpress feeds in Google Reader is now apparently gone. No idea who changed what to make it work.
Update 2 (2008-04-11): Also nice is that you have a RSS feed for recommended posts, that I’ve now included in my sidebar.
