Today Google said goodbye to its RSS reader, Google Reader. I had previously written on this blog that Google Reader was an excellent tool for creating your own “newspaper.”
Rather than give you a long list of alternatives, I’m just giving you my top recommendation for your new reader: feedly. It seems everyone is talking about it, and the positive vibe is warranted. It has a sleek design, loads quickly, lets you mark articles as read easily and even imports your Google Reader feeds.
I like that you can customize the view, from a list to magazine-style to cards (my favorite–resembles Flipboard) to full articles. For those stories that you like, you can share them easily through Pinterest, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. I also like that you can track your stocks, too, although that feature is temporarily disabled.
Like most products these days, feedly is cloud-based can be accessed through a browser or an app. I’ve got feedly loaded on both my Android phone and tablet.
I’m curious how long Vine will be around now that Instagram has video capabilities? In my opinion, Vine’s major mistake was not developing an Android app when it first launched. It could have really owned the video market on both phones, but by the time Android users could get the app–which only worked with later versions of Android–Instagram made its announcement shortly thereafter.