Feedly puts the magic back into RSS and blogs
Have you been neglecting your RSS feeds? Has it been weeks or months since you opened your RSS feed reader?
Yeah. Me too. I blame Twitter. I get so many links and news updates via TweetDeck on my desktop, and via Twitterific on my iPhone, I just don’t feel the need to open Google Reader anymore.
In the past few days, though, I’ve been back on my diet of RSS feeds. What’s more, I’ve subscribed to new feeds. I’ve cleaned out old, dead subscriptions and updated the obsolete ones.
I’ve been falling in love with Feedly ever since I installed the Firefox plug-in last week. Feedly automatically imports your entire Google Reader set of feeds and transforms each one of your folders into a “page.” The plug-in is also available for Chrome. And an iPhone version is coming, someday.
As you can see from the two Feedly pages above (from my personal RSS feeds), the browsability quotient is very high! But note also on the right side rail on my Asia News page — Feedly recommends related content sources to me too.
There’s Twitter and YouTube integration and all kinds of cool stuff that makes using Feedly downright addictive! So don’t waste any more time here. Just go to the Feedly home page, download the plug-in, and try it yourself!
Categories: blogging
I’m giving this a try. I had managed to check my Google Reader about 3-4 times per week, but not getting through the bulk of what’s being posted. Hope this helps.
Thanks for this post, Mindy.
I was having the same issue, but worse as I was leaving my Google Reader open in a browser and ignored. I’m really liking Feedly.
What I’d love to see is a Twitter client that doubles as a feed reader.