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Alesti the Google Reader Killer
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Every once in a while a web application comes along that takes your breath away. It either does something so well that you have no excuse not to jump ship or does something much faster, Alesti does both. Like Gmail to Outlook, Alesti is to Google Reader. It really is that good.
The thing that will make you switch is speed, I flew through over 600 feeds in a matter of minutes and went straight to the feed I was looking for via Firefox’s search. Its not only fast on the backend, even the front end is extremely speedy. Like taking the parking break off of Google Reader you just get what you need very quickly. On the surface is appears that you have no keyboard navigation but apparently you get that too, see the forums.
Another one of the features that Alesti nailed was RSS feed sharing. Simply share out your RSS collection and you can be sharing out your reading collection to anyone. You send your friends a link and they can browse through the cool RSS feeds that you have found.
Usually something hangs when I try to import my gargantuan OPML file into other web based readers but Alesti just shrugged and imported all 600 Feeds, it even did that speedy. This one is a must use web application and will be extremely popular, somehow I can imagine Google knocking on their door with money in hand. Good job guys.
