Lately I’ve been hearing more and more buzz about Google Reader, but I’ve never taken the time to actually set it up and see how it can help me. This surprises me because I love Goggle – I could not live without my Gmail account, I fully utilize Google Talk, and Google is my search engine of choice.
This week I decided to dive head first into Google Reader, and have been hooked ever since. Up until now, I don’t know how I kept up with all the news that has interested me.
Google Reader is a way to organize and share your RSS feeds such as blogs or websites you frequently visit. When you first set up your Google Reader page, you can browse websites from a variety of topics such as news, fun and games, finance, sports, lifestyle and technology. Any website that you find in these categories can be added to your subscriptions for you to view when new stories are added.
New updates for each subscription can be scrolled through for easy viewing, with the options to share the feed (with or without your own comments) in your shared items, e-mail the feed, share the feed on Facebook, Digg or Del.icio.us, or add a Star for the feed to show up in your Starred Items folder for later viewing.
Any friends that you have added to your Google Reader will be able to view your shared items, and vice-versa. Any items that you have in your subscriptions will remain for your private viewing unless you choose to share them out to your friends.
Perhaps one of the best parts about Google Reader is that it replaces all of my saved favorites on my web browser. I never have to worry about losing all of my favorites if my computer crashes – I can simply login to my Google Reader and access everything I need.
Check out Google Reader at www.google.com/reader.
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I am fundamentally opposed to RSS.
Actually… when I can remember my fourteen bazillion different Google accounts, I love reader.
For favorites I prefer StumbleUpon – I know it’s not a “sanctioned” use of the tool but I use it as guerrilla bookmarking more than anything else. I keep the toolbar at work and at home so if I come across an article that I like or want to look at later, I just Stumble it and *VIOLA* there it is.
Is that so wrong?
Try Diigo it’s a better bookmarking tool and adds a few extra cool features. Of course you could clean up all those Google accounts. How about keeping the Internet clean.