NewsGator Introduces Feed Recommendations

Published at May 22, 2008   Filed Under Web 2.0   3 Comments  

NewsGator introduced RSS feed suggestions to its users from today onwards. It will recommend stories from feeds that users have never seen and subscribed to. The service uses SenseArray colloborative filtering software of Uprizer Labs, according to NewsGator.
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or Email alerts. [...]

Read Authenticated feeds in Google Reader or Bloglines

Published at April 29, 2008   Filed Under Tools   0 Comments  

Google Reader and Bloglines are popular feed readers, many use these two for reading feeds including myself. While they are good they lack one important feature that is support for authenticated feeds. FreeMyFeed is a service that allows you to read authenticated feeds in any feed reader of your choice.
Authenticated feeds or feeds using [...]

FeedDemon, NetNewsWire and NewsGatorGo are now free

Published at January 10, 2008   Filed Under Tools   1 Comment  

Now a days most of the RSS users have shifted to web based services like Google Reader and Bloglines, if you prefer to use desktop based reader here is your chance to get one of those best readers completly free. Feeddemon, Netnewswire and NewsGatorGo are available now as free downloads, there are commercial applications earlier. [...]

How to know number of subscribers via Google Reader

Published at October 15, 2007   Filed Under Google   3 Comments  

Google Reader now shows the number of subscribers a blog RSS feed has via Google Reader.
To see the number of subscribers count for any feed click on Add Subscription button in your google reader and search with the name of a blog or keyword and it shows the subscriber count next to each feed.

These numbers [...]

Google Reader gets Search

Published at September 6, 2007   Filed Under Google   2 Comments  

The much awaited feature in Google Reader, the ability to search feeds with keywords is added today. You can search your subscribed feeds as well as shared feed items using keywords.
It took long for the company who is specialized in search to add this feature to Google reader. Along with search there are some [...]

Fav.or.it: Feed Reader with Integrated Commenting

Published at August 17, 2007   Filed Under Web 2.0   7 Comments  

Fav.or.it is the new entrant in to the feed reader space. Fav.or.it is trying to do something others have not done so far, it aims to integrate commenting in the feed reader itself. That means you dont have to leave your feed reader for commenting on the story you read.
Fav.or.it is still in beta [...]

Google Reader for Wii fans

Published at May 8, 2007   Filed Under Gadgets, Google   0 Comments  

Google introduced a wii compatible Google Reader for Wii fans. Here are some tips and tricks on how to use Google Reader on your wiimote.
Tips and tricks
Google Reader can take advantage of the buttons on your Wiimote, letting you navigate easily from the comfort of your couch:
* up/down: scroll up/down
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