Your current feed reader is full of unread items. You’re hesitant to subscribe to any more feeds because you can’t keep up with your existing subs. Maybe you’ve even abandoned feeds altogether.

Fever takes the temperature of your slice of the web and shows you what’s hot.

I love Google Reader (now). I was tepid in my response to Reader when I first started using it three or so years ago… and for good reason… it was clunky and janky as anything Google has ever put out.

There are still remnants of that bygone era, but I’m a fan of Reader’s interface now. However, I’m always on the lookout for enhancements to my feed reading (since I have less and less time to spend sorting through the 200-400 (depending on my selectivity that month) feeds that I subscribe to).

I’ve heard a great deal about Fever, so I decided to give it a spin.

So far, I’m not sure if I’m sold since there is a social nature to Google Reader that I do enjoy. However, Fever gives the opportunity to quickly zoom through feeds and catch up with what’s important based on what others are saying that are in your network.

However, Fever isn’t just another feedcatcher app… you have to do a little trickery with your own server involving mysql databases since this is an app you host on your own server (rather than a “web app” like GMail or Twitter or Google Reader).

I’ll send over screenshots and thoughts as I play more with Fever tonight.