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Goodbye Newsgator, hello Feedly

In the past few days since it’s release Feedly has been gen­er­at­ing a huge buzz, a quick look for Feedly on Sum­mize(Twit­ter search engine) gives you an idea of the impact this exten­sion for Fire­fox 3 has had on early adop­ters in that time.

Up until the begin­ning of this year, I was using Bloglines as my feed reader. I had exper­i­mented with a num­ber of online feed read­ers, includ­ing Google Reader, but I stuck with Bloglines because I pre­ferred it’s inter­face, des­pite it’s short­com­ings. And I needed an online feed reader as I used dif­fer­ent devices to read feeds.

Then News­gator star­ted giv­ing it’s feed read­ers away and they could syn­chron­ise with News­gator Online. So I quickly installed Feed Demon on my work and home PC, Net­News­Wire on my Mac and News­Gator Go on my mobile. Des­pite dif­fer­ent UI for dif­fer­ent devices, I was rel­at­ively happy until Feedly was released to coin­cide with the release of Fire­Fox 3.

Feedly is not a huge step for­ward in feed read­ing UI, I am still com­ing to grips with the magazine influ­enced lay­out. It is not avail­able for my mobile, so I am hav­ing to go back to Google Reader for the mobile. The big change is feed recom­mend­a­tions. That was avail­able already with Google Reader, but only for people whose email was in my Gmail address book.

Feedly goes bey­ond that small circle, adding all my friends on Twit­ter or Friend­Feed who use Google Reader and then provid­ing recom­mend­a­tions from their friends. I am now get­ting recom­mend­a­tions from a couple hun­dred of people.

So that is why I am now I huge fan of Feedly and are not going back, recom­mend­a­tions. At some stage, I would like to be able to block some friends of friends, I have some strange friends and they have even stranger friends who read really weird feeds.

So make you feed read­ing more social by check­ing out Feedly and if you do and your are not one of my Twit­ter or Friend­Feeds friends, you will have to wait a couple of weeks to see what strange feeds my friends read.

This entry was posted on Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 at 4:38 pm and is filed under blogging, Just geek . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

3 Responses to “Goodbye Newsgator, hello Feedly”

  1. Edwin Khodabakchian Says:
    June 22nd, 2008 at 11:24 pm

    Thanks for the review. We are early in our dev cycle and look for­ward to your sug­ges­tion on how to bet­ter pol­ish and improve the concept.

    Re: fil­ter­ing out friend of friends, would you like to see that in every­where or on the wall page only?

  2. Nick Says:
    June 23rd, 2008 at 5:53 pm

    Hi Edwin,
    I would like to fil­ter out friends of friends from the wall (both the wall page and what’s new).
    Another fea­ture request would be to clean up the duplic­ate of art­icles in the wall. Often I have the same art­icle appear­ing a num­ber of times, often one after another. I would be bet­ter in my opin­ion to say recom­mend by name and X num­ber of friends.

  3. Edwin Khodabakchian Says:
    June 25th, 2008 at 2:41 am

    Nick,
    Both sug­ges­tions are really good. If you have not already done it, could you please post these sug­ges­tions to http://www.getsatisfaction.com/feedly so that we can track them down and make sure that they get imple­men­ted shortly?
    Thank you,
    Edwin

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