Google Reader

I have been using Google Reader and am quite enjoying having all my feeds and content from multiple sources aggregated in one place. It does make for easier reading as touted. And having it integrated into my uber Google account which includes Gmail, calendaring, docs, and spreadsheets is convenient. The interface is characteristically Google-y...simple and text based. The one thing that I found to be not-so-obvious in the interface is in the preview pane. When a user clicks on a news item to expand out the story to read it, it is not clear that the user can click again on the news item title to contract the pane. This would be one of my first and most commonly taken actions in this app....i.e. to expand and contract the news stories. There are no explicit pane controls for this action. On the other hand, I like the color coding of read versus unread items.

Very cool stuff! Check it out at http://www.google.com/reader/.