Google Reader, the RSS feed reader released last year, has been overhauled. What has changed? Basically everything!

I was thoroughly disappointed by the clunky, unintuitive interface they had presented in their first version, but it seems the team actually listened to feedback.

It now has a river of news view, making it much easier to quickly scan new items, it seems a lot faster and it seems a lot more in sync with the overall look of Google products like GMail or their calendar.

Congratulations to the team for making the reader usable and an actual competitor to the present number one reader Bloglines.

By the way, they made a video explaining the use of an RSS reader to people who are new to the subject. Nice. I took the liberty to post it, so you can watch it right here:

While it may certainly sound like yet another web2.0-centric folly that’s catering to the owners and/or lovers of the bovine kind, moo.com is in fact nothing like that. No, it’s actually a service that has been around for a while, but only recently have they launched what will probably propell them into the heavens of web2.0 stardom (and quite possibly riches as well).

The great thing about it? It’s such a simple idea! Moo, specializing in creating tiny photo business cards for people who don’t care for boring standard white cards, have teamed with Flickr, prototypical web2.0 company and everyone’s favourite photo sharing site, to let people import their pictures from Flickr and then create sets of mini Flickr business cards. And the thing that really makes them stand out? The give out ten free cards to the first 10,000 Flickr users with pro accounts. That way, people will be able to see how the system works (flawlessly and very elegant) and how they like their cards. Later on, if you do like them, you can order 100 card sets for the price of only 19,99USD. For me, that sounds like a swell deal.

So, if you’re a Flickr user, go and check it out. And if you’re a pro, you might even still get your free 10 cards. By the way, they send them out globally, which is a good thing for people like me who don’t happen to live in the Bay Area.

Ever thought that blogs are way too much effort just to relay your day to day activities to a couple of strangers? Well, Twitter’s your answer. Equipped with a mobile and a sense for slicing up your life into little pieces, you are all set to use Twitter.

Sign up with your mobile number and you are good to go. You can enter text either via the little form on the site, or send text messages to the service. Depending on your privacy settings, the messages will be displayed right on the public page or just on your private page, visible only to you and your friends.

All in all, a nice little tool for people who feel like tapping into the daily routines of total strangers, or for those who want their friends to see what they are up to. By the way, once all your friends are signed up to the service, you can use Twitter to send messages directly to them from the Twitter homepage, turning the service into a free messaging service.