March 11, 2010

Feed Me Feedly

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Feedly.com is a magazine-like startpage which displays all my social media feeds and interactions in one place – my home page. Feedly provides seamless integration with Google Reader, Twitter, Delicious, YouTube and Amazon.

Having dabbled with iGoogle, Pageflakes, AllTop and other feed aggregators I am now settled with Feedly. I find it the most useful and time-efficient of all the readers I have trialled and it keeps me on top of the latest articles and information from the blogosphere and twittiverse. In effect my previously chaotic feeding frenzy has been rationalised into a single page that I can continuously explore to find and share fantastic articles and images from around the world.

Recently Feedly has undergone significant ‘behind the scenes’ functionality enhancements which allow me to use the start page in Google Chrome as well as Firefox.

So what is Feedly and why should you use it?

  • Feedly is a full feature RSS reader accessed through a fast and interactive magazine-like interface
    • The reader can import RSS feeds and sources from Google Reader, Bloglines, Netvibes or from bookmarks
    • The RSS feeds are then organised into tabs/categories (the enhanced drag/drop system is fantastic)
    • Feedly supports a wide variety of RSS and ATOM feed format.
  • Cross Computer Syncing
    • Feedly syncs with Google Reader, across multiple computers
  • Cross Browser compatability
    • New (beta) functionality allows Feedly to be used in Google Chrome and Safari
  • Enhanced sharing
    • Share articles on twitter, tumblr, delicious and facebook
  • Visually stimulating
    • Feedly can be configured to display in multiple views:
      • title only, title and summary, image grid, video grid, entire content
  • Information Facilitation
    • Filter the most relevant/popular content
    • Overlays search results from your sources on Google, Bing, Yahoo and other search engines

Feedly Digest View

Feedly Digest View

What makes it such an amazing tool is its social aspects: users can twit, share, email, bookmark it with delicious and see FriendFeed discussions, directly from Feedly, without leaving the post. This one-click sharing feature is just begging you to use it Pravdam.com

So what do I do now?

  • Firefox users
  • Google Chrome users (still in beta)
  • Safari Users
  • Keep up to date with Feedly development at the blog or on twitter
  • Import your bookmarks, organise your source information and create your own personalised, dynamically updated reading space and get sharing…

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  1. Social bookmarking and feed aggregation
  2. RSS feed Really Simple Syndication
  3. Health Feed Aggregation
  4. Social Bookmarking for Physicians
  5. Information overload

About sandnsurf
Emergency physician with a passion for medical informatics and medical education. I write medical textbooks and host educational material at Life in the Fast Lane, HealthEngine and Popfossa.com. I write more eclectically on the web as @sandnsurf

Comments

  1. Ravichandra says:

    I had used feedly before…it has improved a lot….using it again now:)

  2. Aaron says:

    Yeah feedly is great for sorting through feeds. Still use iGoogle as my home page, but if I haven’t checked greader for a while feedly makes it make easier to notice items of interest.

    Also don’t mind how it suggests related items now and again while browsing. Found it annoying at first, but overtime it has grown on me.

    The more feeds you subscribe to, the more you need something like Feedly.

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