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Scope Out Your Hippest Friends With Google Reader
I've given you plenty of reasons to sign up for an RSS reader, but in case you need one more here it goes: Google Reader has released a new version with a more comprehensive friend feature that allows you to keep a close watch on your friends' activity. Wondering how much Internet ground your pals cover? Now you can check the stats to find out.
Daily Tech: Swine Flu iPhone App For the Overly Paranoid
- It's still waiting on approval before it hits the iTunes Store, but there's actually a Swine Flu Tracker iPhone App that will show you threat levels and confirmed and suspected cases. — TechCrunch
- Did you know that today is RSS Awareness Day? Yeah, me neither.
10 Good Reasons to Use an RSS Reader
The web moves fast. In fact, they say one day, it might even move faster than the speed of light. There are millions of articles being published, photos being uploaded, status updates being posted and tweets being tweeted every single day.
Geek Tip: Follow Flickr Streams Via RSS or Delicious
Sure, following Tweets secretly through your RSS allows a special, stalkerish pleasure, but watching your friend's Internet activity doesn't have to be all about surreptitiousness. When a pal shares a link to her Flickr account or I run across a photographer whose work I find inspiring I stick it in my RSS reader so I can keep up with their activity.
Flickr offers an RSS feed for photostream pages, which you select and add to your reader.
Viigo Makes Reading RSS Feeds on Your BlackBerry Seamless
If you want to spruce up your BlackBerry's interface — and by spruce up I mean beautify it with one click access to things like news, weather, and travel info — Viigo is a new free app that you won't be able to live without.
Unlike other phones (ahem, the iPhone), the BlackBerry doesn't provide instant access to things like Twitter and your favorite blogs, track packages, and see weather forecasts, but with Viigo, you can have a full RSS reader on your phone that offers many tools and features — including all of these!
And once you become a registered user, you can specify your interests to receive customized alerts and updates.
Geek Tip: Follow Someone on Twitter Without Them Knowing
Do you want to follow someone's updates on Twitter, but don't necessarily want them to see that you're following them? Or maybe you're reluctant to join Twitter, but still would like to see what someone is tweeting. You can actually add someone's Twitter feed to your RSS reader.
Website of the Day: Tabbloid
You no longer read newspapers for the daily headlines, but you are subscribed to about 100 different newsfeeds in Google Reader. Sound familiar? If you like the idea of reading your RSS news in magazine/newspaper format, there's a new site called Tabbloid that will whip up your feed in a PDF doc that you can easily print up and take with you on the go.
Geek Tip: Export Your Feeds From One RSS Reader to Another
Change can be hard. Maybe, for instance, you committed to an RSS Reader early on and then decided to switch to a different RSS Reader later on. I'm not here to judge — just to guide.
Top 10 RSS Reader Tips!
For my geeks rocking on with RSS Readers, can I just say I'm proud? An impressive amount of you use them (seriously, I feel like I'm always evangelizing about it to my friends and family and two percent listen), so just for you, I've compiled my top ten favorite RSS reader tips to make your blog-rollin' just that much more enjoyable and efficient!
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How Many Sites Are in Your RSS Reader?
I would be completely lost without my dear RSS reader. It's the second window I open every morning (after geeksugar, of course!) and it is solely responsible for keeping me in the know, on track, and organized.
This question goes out to the impressive 50 percent of geeksugar readers who use RSS readers — how many feeds do you follow?
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