I have been using Windows Live for the past 2-3 years because of the tab experience that they introduced a couple of years ago when they launched. With the tabs, I could categorize the feeds into different buckets based on topics. I liked this because it was much better than My Yahoo which forced me to put all of my feeds onto one page.
Now, I find that I want my feeds all on the same page, but co-mingled with each other. This means, that instead of looking at my feeds separately as I do on Windows Live or as I did on My Yahoo, I want to see all of the articles co-mingled and organized chronologically.
After trying about 5 different add-ons from the Mozilla website, I settled on Feedly. The one thing to note about Feedly is that it pulls directly from Google Reader which also offers the co-mingled article feature that I want... but the interface is just not as appealing. To add a new feed, I need to add it to Google Reader and then Feedly brings it in. A little time-consuming, but we'll see if it is a frustration or just a hurdle.
Perhaps most interesting is when I take a step back from the features and reflect on how easy it is for me to maximize the volume of and efficiency of how I consume news and other information. Incredible. And it is all FREE (except for my internet access charges... which is still cheap when you think about it. How much do you think a King would have paid 500 years ago to have access to all of the worlds printed information?)
Now, I just need to figure out how to get all of this onto a Kindle (I need to figure out how to get a Kindle 2, first, I guess). Oh, the frustration we face when we desire what is new and shiny!
Feedly as of 8am on 12/3/08:
Windows Live as of 8am on 12/3/08:
