CNN Acquires iPad Newsreading App Zite
CNN has acquired iPad newsreading app Zite, the company announced Tuesday. Like AOL’s more recently launched iPad newsreading app, Editions, Zite creates a personalized, magazine-like reading experience by filtering stories from your Google Reader, social networks and self-defined preferences. The more you read, the more finely tailored it becomes. It keeps note of the kinds and length [...]
Read MoreThe Eyes Have It: Prldr Presents Visual RSS Reader
Our quest to find a RSS Feed Reader that is better than our old reliable Google Reader continues as we review another one available to us – Prldr. In the past we have covered other contenders such as Newsblur and Feedly which came close to matching Google Reader’s usability and convenience. Prldr attacks your feeds in a different way which actually can help the sites that you are reading. Find out more details inside.
Read MoreNewsBlur: The Intelligent Feed Reader
The search for a companion to my heavily used Google Reader has been a very long search. It appears that my search could be coming to an end very soon as NewsBlur has almost all of the elements I will need to make a change for the better. NewsBlur has multiple levels that improves the RSS experience, making it more visual and enjoyable than Google Reader. Learn about the reasons why NewsBlur works so well inside.
Read MoreTech Week in Review 5-28-2010
WWDC 2010 The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off on the 7th of June. Rumors already circulated that Steve Ballmer would be speaking about Visual Studio and Silverlight, but these were found to be false. All signs point to the new iPhone being officially released after getting leaked all over the blogosphere. The question is, [...]
Read MoreGoogle Reader Takes Your Feeds Out To “Play”
Google Reader Play is an experimental new way to browse interesting stuff on the web. Brought to you by the Google Reader team, it is supposed to make the best features in Reader more accessible to everyone. It’s not a new application or feed reader, but an interface that runs on top of Google Reader. [...]
Read MoreGoogle Reader Enhances Social Features
Just a few days ago, Google Reader launched a few features that make it just a little more social. Powered by Google Profiles, these new features make it easy to find like-minded people to engage with. It’s also a lot simpler to share items. While Google Reader is probably one of the most popular RSS feed readers around, it has also been difficult or confusing to do certain things with it until now.
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