blogvp

You can now add to your site. Google has added a page with more information here.

UPDATE: I have modified the image that Google provided to be the size like all of the other buttons. You can go ahead and copy it and use it on your site.

google

So I’m reading Bloglines, which is my preferred reader since I can take it with me anywhere, and my busy mind remembers a post I might have read around 6 month ago. Now, I don’t remember what site it was from or who wrote it, but I can probably think of a few keywords in that post.

What do I do?

1. I can’t use Google. It doesn’t search only blogs and I can’t specify the time frame.
2. I can’t use any of the blog searching sites. Because they produce the same results as google or worse.

I finally come to the conclusion that there is NOTHING that I can do. That is when this idea came to my mind, we need something like bloglines, which is easy to use, but for it to store all of the posts from a blog in an archive format, easily searchable, and easy to use.

I’m sure that whoever comes up with that will be pretty successful.

blogarchive, archives

So I took inform.com reader for a spin. They are trying to get into the space with Google Reader, Bloglines and others. Here are my first impressions:

1. It seems to “feel” more like a news portal than a blog/rss reader
2. Too many pop-ups. Learn something from MSIE7 and Firefox, people aren’t the biggest fans of poups.
3. No easy way to just add a new blog. After playing around with the site for 15 minutes I still couldn’t find a way to add an RSS feed.

Final summary: I’m a big user of bloglines, and testing others, but inform.com hasn’t given me any reason to return. What’s your USP (Unique Selling Proposition)?

UPDATE: I was right, even Om and Business 2.0 agree that inform.com is not impressive. It’s a good feeling to be validated like that by “higher authority”.