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Browse Your News Feeds In A Fun, Visual Way

12:30AM January 7, 2012 | Alan Henry

Most feed readers default to a long list of headlines and articles with a folder-like navigation tree on the left to help you sift through your feeds and unread posts. It works, but FeedSquares is a Chrome extension that connects to Google Reader and uses tiles to display your feeds instead. Highlighted and off-axis tiles indicate new topics, and you can click any tile to see the posts for that feed and any article to bring up the full text. More »

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Five Best RSS Newsreaders

3:00AM November 7, 2011 | Alan Henry

Google’s changes to Google Reader this week upset a lot of people, and it got us wondering how many of you still use Google Reader as your preferred RSS newsreader when there are so many other options. This week, we’re going to highlight some of those other news readers, in case you’re looking for alternatives. More »

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Google Reader Rolls Out A New Google Plus-Integrated Interface

8:55AM November 1, 2011 | Whitson Gordon

Google Reader is following in the footsteps of Gmail, Docs, and Voice with a clean new interface, that’s easier to use and contains integration with the Google+ social network. More »

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Five Best News Aggregators

7:00AM October 3, 2011 | Alan Henry

There are plenty of apps and services that just let you add your favourite blogs and keep up with their feeds, but what about apps that help you discover new and interesting news, things you wouldn’t have found on your own? This week we’re going to look at five apps that deliver a curated news experience, even if they include your own feeds. More »

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Mashup RSS Feeds With ChimpFeedr

9:00AM August 7, 2011 | David Galloway

RSS feeds are handy not just for people who use feed readers such as Google Reader to keep up with their favourite sites, but also for bloggers who may wish to feature recent posts from other sites in a single widget. ChimpFeedr is a very basic webapp that can mashup RSS feeds for both uses. More »

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Create RSS Feeds For Google+ Profiles

12:00AM July 18, 2011 | David Galloway

For those who prefer using feed readers to streamline their online consumption, you can now follow individual Google+ user streams via RSS feeds using a webapp called, simply, Google Plus Feed. More »

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How To Automate Your Ego Searches For Ninja-Like Online Awareness

1:00AM June 25, 2011 | Matthew Rogers

There’s no shame in admitting that you occasionally Google yourself; it’s worth keeping an eye on what the internet has to say about you. But if you’re manually searching your name on Google, revisiting blog posts you’ve commented on to see if anyone’s replied to what you’ve said, and searching for (non-@)mentions of your company on Twitter, you’re wasting a lot of time. Instead of sitting in front of your computer for an hour a day just to satisfy social curiosity, you can automate the process—and turn your ego search into an ego watch, instead. Here’s how. More »

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Reader Plus Is A Chrome Extension That Adds Missing Features To Google Reader

11:00PM May 3, 2011 | Matthew Rogers

Chrome: Reader Plus is an extension for Google Chrome that adds missing features, easy theming and many small touches to Google Reader. More »

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Use ScraperWiki To Help Turn Web Pages Into Usable Data

8:00AM March 20, 2011 | Dave Drager

A scraper is a program written to take content from a web page or other data source and turn it into some kind of other useful format such as an RSS feed or database. Buillding a scraper can be tricky as each site is different, ScraperWiki aims to fix this by creating a repository of useful scraper scripts. More »

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Four Tweaks We’d Like To See In Google Reader

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11:30AM November 17, 2010 | Angus Kidman

Google Reader is one of the best and most widely-used RSS readers on the market. Here’s four simple things Google could fix to make it even better. More »