Google Reader
Google updated their Google Reader yesterday.
Google Reader allows you to read any RSS feed on the web, and organize them in an intuitive way to keep up on what you care about.
I've been a big fan of RSS for a while. I think it represents the kinds of evolutions in Internet technology we should be thinking more about, and Google has done a good job making their news reader googly and easy to adopt by anyone wanting to start keeping track of their feeds. I hope they integrate this with Gmail.
Why RSS?
RSS allows you to be notified, without checking, if anything has been updated from a source you're interested in. Google also does a good job of explaining this, saying that it's kind of like your email Inbox, but for web pages.
This blog, for example, publishes an RSS feed through Feedburner at: http://feeds.feedburner.com/GadielCom
Click that link and you'll be taken to a page that kind of looks like my blog, but is actually a machine-readable feed with options to "subscribe" through various Newsreaders.
The exchange of information has become a big part of what the web is all about. No site is an island and the more ways publishers can put their ideas "out there", the more people will come back to hear what they have to say.
Now we just need something worth saying...
Google Reader allows you to read any RSS feed on the web, and organize them in an intuitive way to keep up on what you care about.
I've been a big fan of RSS for a while. I think it represents the kinds of evolutions in Internet technology we should be thinking more about, and Google has done a good job making their news reader googly and easy to adopt by anyone wanting to start keeping track of their feeds. I hope they integrate this with Gmail.
Why RSS?
RSS allows you to be notified, without checking, if anything has been updated from a source you're interested in. Google also does a good job of explaining this, saying that it's kind of like your email Inbox, but for web pages.
This blog, for example, publishes an RSS feed through Feedburner at: http://feeds.feedburner.com/GadielCom
Click that link and you'll be taken to a page that kind of looks like my blog, but is actually a machine-readable feed with options to "subscribe" through various Newsreaders.
The exchange of information has become a big part of what the web is all about. No site is an island and the more ways publishers can put their ideas "out there", the more people will come back to hear what they have to say.
Now we just need something worth saying...
posted by Andy at
10:51 AM
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