Google Reader and Flash
Here at Web 2.0, the guys at Google Labs just released a web based news aggregator called Google Reader. It looks pretty usable from the 30 seconds I spent with it so far. What is even better is that it will aggregate podcasts and allows you to listen to the podcast in the page using Flash!
I dont think this is functional, I rather use thunderbird! too slow!
gilberto melendez
7 Oct 05 at 11:31 am
yes…it is SLOW. I tried adding the macromedia mxna feed to it… it took like 30 seconds!
davr
7 Oct 05 at 11:37 am
It definitely is slow, but I’m sure they’re work that issue out. Did anyone try adding a podcast feed with enclosures? I added one, but there’s no Flash player on the page I can see (just a text link marked “Original enclosure” that points to the mp3 file). Did Google mention that the Flash podcast player would be a future feature and is not currently integrated into the public beta, or am I missing something?
John
7 Oct 05 at 11:50 am
I added the feed with the enclosure and it appeared when I was looking at the post through the Your subscriptions page.
It seems like they are having some pretty serious load issues, which is actually quite shocking for Google.
Daniel Dura
7 Oct 05 at 11:59 am
I added a feed from another podcast and the player did appear. There must be a problem with the feed for first podcast I tried.
John
7 Oct 05 at 12:30 pm
Flash?
I just came across it and it looks more like DHTML/AJAX kinda thing …. not wickedly fast, but acceptable.
trevc
19 Oct 05 at 2:16 pm
its pretty nice to see the Flash Applications in Google reader…Its using Ajax, so some of the tasks of flash are limited in some projects.
jack
7 Dec 05 at 12:30 am