At the beginning of this month, we told you about Feedly, a Firefox extension for Google Reader users that provides an alternative UI for reading through the news. The Feedly UI lays out your feeds magazine-style while also including a number of other features such as Twitter and FriendFeed integration as well as integration with Google Search. However, despite the richness of what Feedly has to offer, heavy RSS users said they could not really use the application because it did not allow them to quickly scan their feeds like they could in Google Reader.
Feedly's developer, Edwin Khodabakchian, admits that heavy RSS readers aren't really the core audience for Feedly, but he decided to create a "river of news" view for them (ahem, us) anyway. This new view is available by clicking the river icon on the top-left of Feedly's navigation bar. The resulting view looks like this:
Feedly's River of News
This new river view offers the following features:
Now even sophisticated RSS users can have the best of both worlds - quick access to all of Feedly's features while also being able to scan the news almost as fast as in Google Reader itself.
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Ce l'ho, ce l'ho, ma continuo ad usare google reader
Posted by: Niki Costantini
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August 12, 2008 7:16 AM
The Google reader allows you to create a sort of database you can search at any time when you need to research a topic . I think that's what has out it ahead of all the others for heavy users like myself - does FF do anything similar ??
Posted by: Sante J. Achille | August 12, 2008 7:22 AM
You forgot to mention that it's only FF3 compatible. Besides, I use Reader inside a Prism window, but thanks. I'll have to check that out whenever I'm sure all my ext's are ready for FF3.
Posted by: Billy Girlardo | August 12, 2008 7:26 AM
I am a "heavy RSS user" and never found a problem with Feedly. They have many different "views" to choose from. So if you like to scan, there's a style for you, if you like to read, there's a style for you, if you like pics, there's a style for you.....
Posted by: ChaCha Fance | August 13, 2008 1:30 AM