http://www.replacereader.com/ has a campaign to get people to vote for their favorite Reader replacement via twitter. Personally, I've been using NewsBlur for a few months and think it's great.

I built my own: https://github.com/swanson/stringer

Self-hosted, no social crap, no 3rd party dependencies, run it at http://reader.yourdomain.com, keyboard shortcuts

Thanks for the mention. It looks elegant. It also 'forced' me to use Heroku for the first time too, which helped take the mystery away.

I have been using feedly for the past few months. So far, the experience has been pretty great. It doesn't really slow down for me, even on old computers running winxp. They are pretty quick to iron out any bugs. The UI is fairly simple and similar to Google Reader. These three factors were my test for finding the right alternative. I will be honest and say that feedly was the first one I tried out so I can not give you a comparison to others.

They are currently pulling the feeds from your google reader account, but will be transitioning seamlessly (or so they claim) to their Normandy project when Reader shuts down for good. If you do not want to take a risk with any bugs, issues, or delays that might occur, I suggest looking elsewhere.

I will recommend feedly.com, nice UI/UX , if you want a different approach, you might also check http://www.feedsapi.org , nice UI/UX as well and easy to use.

I have gone for http://feeder.co/ because it is very lightweight and in-browser. And in-fact I like it more than Google Reader.

I tried Feedly. It looks really shady as it adds something in the background and the UI is not good for reading.

I am a long-time user of Netvibes and I'm surprised how little I hear the name as a Google Reader replacement given Netvibes' maturity and features.

I've been building http://creek.io for the past month or so, you should sign up for the beta.

I have tried many as possible and find the best to me are Feedly and Newsblur. Make a try on any of this two rss/feed readers .

Also if you're looking for something free that you could potentially host yourself, check out TT-RSS