Giving Google Reader A Try

[Moozik: The Bravery - Tyrant]

About a month ago I mentioned that I was a little miffed that embedded YouTube clips did not appear in Bloglines or Google Reader. Well, at the end of January Google announced that Google Reader now supports embedded YouTube clips (and also those from many other sites too).

Unfortunately the official Bloglines stance is not quite as promising as I would have hoped.

Unfortunately, we currently only support using YouTube videos in enclosures. (Just like you were attaching a podcast to the post, put in the SWF/movie URL)

We don't currently support YouTubes inline-post format, due to possible security issues with running untrusted flash.

Which is all rather disappointing. So, after using Bloglines for what seems like forever, today I finally decided to make the switch to Google Reader.

It's a little too early to say whether this will be a permanent move as I must admit that I do like the Bloglines UI and had there been no embedded video problem I wouldn't have even considered switching. Mind you, another thing Google Reader has going for it are those luurvely Gmail keyboard shortcuts. Love those.

So time will tell.