Recently I have been turned on to RSS feeds. If you not sure what an RSS feed is there are plenty of sites out there that explain RSS well. I recommend W3C’s About RSS. Anyways, I have been looking for a client that would support RSS feeds so that in the morning (6am’ish) I can get on my computer and read the morning news, blogs, and technology all in one spot. What I currently do is I have all my favorite web pages saved in firefox and I open them up in tabs, about 30 or 40 of them. The problem with this is that it takes a while to load the pages and I am missing a lot of posts that don’t show up on front page. So I am currently looking for a good free RSS reader. I have tried the following:

1. Bloglines - Don’t like the interface
2. FeedReader - Cheesy
3. Sharpreader - just ok, nothing special.

And I have also tried a couple really bad ones that are listed on this site.

The best on I have found right now is Sage. Sage is a lightweight RSS and Atom feed aggregator extension for Mozilla Firefox. It’s got a lot of what you need and not much of what you don’t. (< -- Taken directly from there site) Overall I think this is the best one I found but I'm certinly open for suggestions. I like the bloglines idea but I don’t like the interface. That may mean I'm up for a new web project!?

On the other hand, the release of Google Talk has disappointed many including myself. First off (and I know its only in beta) but why would you release something as simple as it is. Basically you need to have windows OS to make the best of what is there. Google did not release a Mac client but there are compatible Mac clients such as adium and iChat. However, all you can do is chat, no talking capabilities as of yet. Right now Google Talk is not for your average computer user. If you are not using the Google client there are a few setup steps needed. With all the hype before the release I think Google will be hurt by there decision to release a beta version. Another down fall is that you have to be on their jabber server. If you are not registered with Google on there server then you can’t talk to other people. So if I wanted to talk to Joe Smith and he has AIM think again it's not going to happen. I just don’t know what to think right now and I'm willing to hold out till a stable release. Although 1.0 better blow my socks off or I’ll stick with shitty AIM.