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Monday, May 23rd, 2011
Stan Schroeder at Mashable creates a guide to How To: Get the Most Out of Google Reader. If you’re a new GReader user, or you’re looking for ways to organize all your feeds you may want to check out this handy post which covers the following topics:
Friday, January 28th, 2011
Jason Fitzpatrick at Lifehacker gathers up the Five Best Android Newsreaders. This recommended list includes the most popular free and for-fee apps according to Lifehacker readers. Each entry includes a screen capture, brief review, and pricing information.
Saturday, September 11th, 2010
In the wake of Ask.com’s announcement yesterday that it will shut down the Bloglines news reader service on October 1st, Dawn Foster at GigaOm has put together a well-timed guide to 5 Tips for Getting the Most out of Google Reader. Here are her recommendations:
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
Richard MacManus at ReadWriteWeb has put together a list of the Top Tools For Tracking Topics on the Web. If you’re looking for an easier way to keep up with what’s happening on the Web, a specific research topic, or what’s being said about your organization, you might try out some of these tools. The list is broken down into the following categories:
Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Too much information and not enough filters? Check out Mashable’s latest article, Slow Feed Movement: 7 Tools to Filter the RSS Flood, which suggests choosing from seven tools to focus the flow of information. Two which caught my eye were the Best of Friendfeed feature and TweetDeck, an Adobe Air desktop application.
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Google Reader just rolled out a new feature in the form of a chart which provides RSS feed details about the number of subscribers, items posted, and time of day and day of the week each was post was published.
via Micro Persuasion
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
The Common Craft team has created a one-minute introduction to Google Reader in another of its “in Plain English” videos.
Friday, July 25th, 2008
Christina Laun from the OEDb puts together the The Ultimate RSS Toolset: 100+ Online Apps and Resources. This annotated resource list is categorized into the following sections:
Monday, April 14th, 2008
Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb gives us Seven Tips for Making the Most of Your RSS Reader. He has some very interesting suggestions including using an RSS filter such as AideRSS to sort out and subscribe to only the most popular posts in each feed to save yourself time. Here are his 7 tips:
Monday, March 17th, 2008
Read/Write Web aggregates the four most recent posts from ten websites you may never have come across and presents them in an annotated guide to finding fantastic things. Here are their ten sites, click through to the original article to view the posts from each:
As an aside, it’s interesting to note their use of the AideRSS tool to link to the most recent popular posts for each blog.
Monday, February 25th, 2008
MakeUseof.com has created a guide to some of the lesser-known ways to utilize RSS feeds including SendMeRSS which will forward any RSS feed to your email inbox, TwitterFeed which will forward several RSS feeds to a Twitter account, and Wigitize which will let you add RSS feeds to your website in a customizable widget. Check out the full article for more.
Thursday, January 10th, 2008
Erica Marie DeWolf of eMarketing & New Media pens Six Creative Uses for RSS and Using RSS Feeds to your Advantage in which she provides useful tips on how to make the most of RSS technology. Through these two articles DeWolf advises:
via Micro Persuasion
