Showing posts with label Reader. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reader. Show all posts

Friday, 15 March 2013

Google Reader is dead, long live Feedly



// As I was writing (http://bit.ly/YvRWmi) when the #GoogleReader death was announced, the race is on for a new king of #RSS readers. 

Of the 4 that I tried the last 2 days, here's the outcome: 
- The Old Reader: imported everything (but only current copies of the feeds, not the Google #Reader archive (which has about 1000 more unread article  and works fine (with the exception of photos on the Shorpy feed but that is something none of the readers get right)
- Netvibes: imported everything including the article archive but the interface is not very appealing 
- NewsBlur: in order to manage the extra load, they reduced their capacity of 64 feeds to 12 for the free account so that case is dropped for me.
- #Feedly: imported all feeds and article archive, has an excellent interface with multiple choices for layouts and an additional great free app for iOS and Android. 

So, thank you #Google  for introducing me to a great service, Feedly :) http://www.feedly.com/
And now for some obligatory Hitler rage on the issue http://bit.ly/XEczDn

Thursday, 14 March 2013

Google Reader's death is an opportunity, but for who?



// So #Google is killing Google Reader, messing with the image they have been building for years that "Google can do everything for everyone". #Reader has been the definitive #web-based #RSS reader service for years. That said the race is one for it's replacement. And things are not looking good in terms of instantly responding to demand. Here is my experience so far: 

The Old Reader imported 3 out of 20 subscriptions and is giving my a message that the rest are being imported in the background. That was some 40 minutes ago. The 3 subscriptions are loading fine though, with the exception of photos on the Shorpy feed  http://theoldreader.com/

Netvibes imported all of my subscriptions but loading feeds is very slow or does not happen at all at the moment http://www.netvibes.com/

NewsBlur hasn't managed to complete the import process after several tries and often gives out 502 error pages http://newsblur.com

Feedly (Chrome extension) imported all subscriptions with ease, but has a problem loading up all the many little images that uses in it's interface and basically you can't use it much http://www.feedly.com/

If you have found another service that does not directly connect to #GoogleReader but instead can import #OMPL files, you can export your Reader subscriptions to OMPL on Google Takeout here https://www.google.com/takeout/#custom:reader

So how are you dealing with this?