Mihai Paraparita, employed at Google and responsible of Google Reader, has released in his personal blog a Greasemonkey script that blends google’s rss reader into Gmail.

Even though he says:

I can’t really say what, if any, our integration plans are, but enough users have asked for something like this that I thought writing the script was the most expedient way to provide this (unofficial) feature.

suggesting that a final integration might not be done, the fact that the Greader’s list view looks quite exactly like Gmail’s GUI proves that this will be a goal in the near future.

Anyway is nice to see this feature provided like this instead of a private beta or a gradual roll out.

Perhaps this step leads to another where each item will be treated like a Gmail thread, where the responses will be either posts discussing the original one (opens a huge door to trackback spam) or we will have the option to track blogs converstaions like in Cocomment