Feedly.com: Great User Experience and Tons of Features
posted on 11 March 2011 | posted in
Arts and Entertainment
Part of my job is to scour the net looking for new sites. I'll typically use a search engine as my "discovery tool"- entering phrases like graphic design companies london (if I'm looking for such companies).
If I had to name a favourite site, it would be Feedly.com. Most of the time I spend on the Internet I read RSS news feeds in my Google Reader. But since I discovered Feedly, I rarely open Google Reader anymore. The website reads your feeds settings from Google Reader and then shows them to you in clean and sleek look. Feedly's layout allows you to arrange, organize and customize your news feeds just the way you like it. For example, there's a special "grid" view for easier view of design or art websites that allows you to preview the thumbnail of a news item, making it easier for you to decide if to click it or to move on to the next item. The keyboard shortcuts are very helpful, as well, so you can really save time focusing on items that interest you the most by quickly moving from one item to another, or marking the whole page read. Another great thing is suggestions by keywords on the top of the page. When I'm viewing a certain topic, I can use the suggestion feature to find articles and websites similar to what I'm viewing and subscribe to their feed in a click. Overall, a great experience.
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