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This is a walkthrough of a new feed reader I’ve only just discovered called Feedly. Feedly builds on the power and functionality of Google Reader, incorporating a Firefox plugin, a variety of sharing options including Tweet posting, annotation, and share via email and features a very aesthetically pleasing visual layout.
Importantly, Feedly authenticates against your Google account and synchronizes your feed activities with Google Reader. This means any changes in Feedly are reflected in Google Reader and vice versa.
A few words on RSS
For the benefit of those who may not already be aware with RSS, content syndication, feed readers and the like, I’d like to include the following references.
According to the Wikipedia article of the same name:
“RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format. An RSS document (which is called a “feed”, “web feed”, or “channel”) includes full or summarized text, plus metadata such as publishing dates and authorship…They benefit readers who want to subscribe to timely updates from favored websites or to aggregate feeds from many sites into one place. RSS feeds can be read using software called an “RSS reader”, “feed reader”, or “aggregator”, which can be web-based, desktop-based, mobile device or any computerized Internet-connected device. “
RSS in Plain English by The Common Craft Show
I could expand and prosthelytize on the utility and fundamental greatness of RSS, syndication and feed readers, but this video by the Common Craft covers the concept far more effectively than I could.
I just discovered Feedly last week. I have no idea why such a great program has gone unnoticed by me over the past year or so – I haven’t heard one thing about it. Which is strange because it is FANTASTIC! For anyone who loves flipping through Google Reader – this is the same thing – only better.
I know what you mean. I try to explore every new tool I run across, and I’d never heard of Feedly until it appeared in my blog stats as a point of origin for someone viewing one of my posts. Quite glad I ran across it really – there are some really valuable tools in the application.
Been using Feedly for the past week. One of the killer features for me is the integration with Google. If I do a search in Google, Feedly will search thru my GReader feeds and show me the results in the Google results window. So in addition to getting results from the web, I am also getting results from sources I trust aka the people/blogs I subscribe to in GReader. I blogged about it yesterday http://clintlalonde.net/2009/01/27/why-i-like-feedly/
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