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The Sunday Share – 10 Google Reader Alternatives

March 17, 2013 30 Comments
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As a business resource, Slideshare stands pretty much head and shoulders above most other content platforms.

From presentations to educational content and more, you can find information and curated media on pretty much any topic you have an interest in.

As a research solution, Slideshare offers analysis from some of the smartest minds on the web across all verticals. These include standard presentations, videos, multimedia and more.

Which brings us to this week’s Sunday Share.

Every week, I’ll be sharing a presentation that catches my eye and where I feel you might be interested in the information inside. These will range from business to content to social media to marketing and more.

This week, a particularly useful Slideshare from professional blogger Ana Hoffman of Traffic Generation Cafe.

With the big news this week that Google is closing down its popular Reader service in July, Ana shares 10 great alternatives to Google’s service, including a surprising addition to the mix.

It’s short but offers some great options for bloggers and blog readers.

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Eagle Mat
Eagle Mat like.author.displayName 1 Like

The Web is buzzing with confusing and anxiety over the shut-down of Google Reader. Have to admit, I'm guilty of it too! Thank you for providing these alternatives. I haven't made a choice yet, but I'm sure I'll end up going with 1 of the 12 you've discussed here.

Danny Brown
Danny Brown moderator

@Eagle Mat I'm liking the simple, clean approach Feedly takes - though I mostly follow blogs by email as opposed to RSS, and a lot of heavy Reader users are saying Feedly is too "light". 

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Roye
Roye

Have not tried slideshare yet, looks like it might be worth giving it a try from the comments here.

paolochiodi
paolochiodi like.author.displayName 1 Like

Hi, I tried some of the alternatives, including feedly but I'm not really satisfied. I always miss the simplicity and the speed of google reader.
This is why with a copule of friend, we are taking the challenge to build another RSS reader trying to follow the greader style.
Everything is still in a very early stage but we opened pre-registration.

www.greeder.it

eROI
eROI

A lot of us are moving to feedly RT @DanielGHebert: The Sunday Share: 10 Google Reader Alts- ow.ly\/jdDEGmbc v@DannyBrownown

DannyBrown
DannyBrown

@eROI I have very few RSS feeds (prefer email subs), but I synced the ones I did have to @feedly, very smooth transfer, nice UI too.

MicroSourcing
MicroSourcing like.author.displayName 1 Like

Google's decision to shut Google Reader down is a great opportunity for other readers to take hold of the market. Feedly is one of the most popular choices.

Spencer Wade
Spencer Wade like.author.displayName 1 Like

Yes, I do like Feedly. Slideshare is great. I would rather check out a Slideshare than watch a five minute video where the author rambles on and on.

aryaalatsas
aryaalatsas like.author.displayName 1 Like

I'm biased, but I'd also throw NuffnangX (www.nuffnangx.com), an Asia-based reader into the mix!


annelizhannan
annelizhannan like.author.displayName like.author.displayName 2 Like

Ana Hoffman's slideshare was very well done. Some of those alternatives are new to me but I can't find one that can be formatted to just the title and author as does my Google Reader.  I find the magazine style formats pretty but they take me too long to scroll through. With hundreds if not thousands to wade through (I set it up by topic categories) I can zip through my RSS' early in the morning. For leisure reading the magazine formats are great. Any suggestions by anyone is appreciated. I noticed I already lost my chrome booklet for feeding to the Google Reader. I thought it wasn't taking effect till July?

Danny Brown
Danny Brown moderator

@annelizhannan Hi Anneliz,

What smartphone or tablet system do you use? I just downloaded the Google Currents app over the weekend for my Android, and you can base on headlines and categories on that?

Haven't noticed the booklet removal (although I didn't use RSS much as a subscriber), but wouldn't surprise me as Google has a history of making swift changes once a decision has been made.

annelizhannan
annelizhannan

@Danny Brown I have an android phone (S3), an iPad and a Windows 8 desktop (and people ask me why I am single for so long-guess I just can't find that perfect one ;).  I have all of them loaded with apps but have pretty much settled on the Feedly app as can get it down to just title form but there is no quick subscribe booklet that I can find. I go back and forth with email subscriptions and RSS. I settled on the RSS feeds as I seem to scroll faster and keep track of the blogs best. Thanks

maddiegrant
maddiegrant

Cool preso, too bad most of those readers suck. :(

Danny Brown
Danny Brown moderator

@maddiegrant Which ones, and why? I love the Feedly app, but then, I was never much of a RSS subscriber to start with.

maddiegrant
maddiegrant like.author.displayName 1 Like

@Danny Brown they are all form over function. If you want a beautiful magazine-like thing to flip through on a lazy Sunday morning with your ipad on your lap while you sip your morning coffee, then Flipboard and the like are great. But serious Google Reader users use it like an email inbox - you scan through headlines every day, you can read in line if you want, everything is in folders, you can share some of those folders publicly, you can embed widgets with everything you share on your website; you can also use it for internal curation for a team of people who all have access.  You can use it as a search tool for searching a subset of the web (say you read something a while back, you can find it in GR when you can't find it on Google.)  It's an amazing filtering tool.  It can also be an editorial calendar for a team to know what stories to share through their networks (like if you set up a shared folder and put appropriate stories into it) - each team member can share in multiple ways from their own GR window.

This is a total fucking tragedy imho.  Excuse my French, but then I am French.


Danny Brown
Danny Brown moderator

@maddiegrant Ha, again, I don't know, I'm an email sub kinda guy, though doesn't look like it.

maddiegrant
maddiegrant

@Danny Brown  can you put RSS feeds in Delicious?  (I know you can make an RSS feed of your tags to send stuff out of Delicious).  Because if not, then no.

Danny Brown
Danny Brown moderator

@maddiegrant What about Delicious curation, now that seems to have a new lease of life? Would that be an alternative?

wmwebdes
wmwebdes like.author.displayName 1 Like

I've seen that one before Danny and I loved it first time around.

Ana Hoffman puts out some good material and it's usually pretty practical.

"Every week, I’ll be sharing a presentation that catches my eye and where I feel you might be interested in the information inside."

That's a clever idea - nice one Mr B.


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Danny Brown
Danny Brown moderator

@wmwebdes Cheers, mate - SlideShare has such rich content, it's choosing which one to share that's always fun. ;-)


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