Getting geeky with Feedly
Posted by Cassandra | Filed under Uncategorized
After a month and a half, I’ve ditched Digsby. It was always disconnecting and reconnecting and just generally being annoying. I’ve decided to go back to the original chat clients and manage e-mail and social networks through Firefox add-ons.;)
But I found the greatest thing along the way — Feedly is an RSS feed reader (and Firefox add-on) that organizes feeds into a more visually appealing magazine-style page. It integrates and communicates with Google Reader so all my feeds were ready to go as soon as I clicked. Anything I add via Feedly is automatically sent to Google Reader in case I decide to stop using Feedly. But I highly doubt it.
If you regularly visit more than a few websites each day checking for updates and you’re not already using an RSS feed reader, I would recommend getting started. I’ve subscribed to just under 100 feeds so far and Google Reader was fine for me.
Feedly is a step up, though. The feeds are there, but it’s much more visually interesting and actually looks like a well-designed website itself. It also has a screensaver option that shows photographs and headlines from the most recent updates in a slideshow.
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