Feedly to Google Reader "Anything you can do I can do better"
Usability
If you ask people about why they like Feedly they might say they like the digest, the magazine style cover page etc. However, I would say the biggest gig with feedly is the brilliant ease of use. The information flow is awesome. Here is one example with adding subscriptions.
In google reader adding subscription is kind of strange sequence of steps. You add the subscription and you can drag and drop the feed into the desired folder once its subscribed. If you need a new folder, you have to go to the settings page , go to the subscriptions tab, chose the folder drop down and add a new folder. You cannot add a folder even in folder settings tab. I would never design the page flow that way
In feedly adding a subscription is a smooth flow
a. Click add a source which will give u the ability to preview
b. preview the source feed and click add to chose the folder
c. chose the right folder to add this feed
Options Options Options
I like customizations for look and feel, behavior etc. One thing you find lacking in google reader are these options. There are few but feedly provides a while bunch options to customize your experience, here is a sample:
Social Aspects
Check this out, you can share in google reader, you can save it for later, you can tweet it, you can send the link to your facebook friends, email it and also shared it on friendfeed. Options are just unlimited.
In fact it allows you to put a custom message at the end of the feed. I am using it to tip techmeme and I already made one good tip:
Feedly not only does a great job on allowing you to share, it also does a great job on scanning friendfeed for relevant conversations and allowing you to participate in the conversation right in the feed. Here is an example, it shows who liked it, who commented on it, gives u the ability to like it, comment it. I am reducing my friendfeed time by actually participating via feedly on relevant items.
Oh and yeah it retrieves the comments on the actual article too (google reader simply gives a link):
I can go on and on but I think you get the point. If you really want to best rss reading experience you got to get the feedly extension for firefox to read your google reader items.
