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Now Flipboard users can curate their own magazines on Android phones and tablets, too, just as they have been doing for some time now on iPhones and iPads.
What’s more, they can add articles, pictures and videos to their Flipboard magazines straight from the desktop using a new Flipboard bookmarklet called Flip it.Continue Reading
There’s so much anyone can do online – even create infographics on one’s own.Continue Reading
This is Nextly, a newsreader which presents the news as a slideshow. You can click on Next or press the arrows on your keyboard to go from one story to another.Continue Reading
Happy 20th birthday, World Wide Web! On this day, April 30, in 1993 the Web went public for everyone to use and what a game-changer it has been, giving people greater say, letting everyone publish if they please and communicate online.Continue Reading
Google Reader is being shut down because people are not sharing enough content on Google+, says a former Google Reader product manager. The Reader was being kept alive to drive content to Google+, but it did not do so, says Brian Shih, speaking from his own experience.
Google’s big hit in social media has been YouTube rather than Google+. In a blog post last week, YouTube announced: “YouTube now has more than a billion unique users every single month.”
Powering this growth, it said, is Gen C (C stands for content) – youngsters born between 1988 and 1993 — who, according to the Google Agency Blog, watch YouTube “on all screens, all the time”.
That brings YouTube neck and neck with Facebook which reports “more than a billion active users as of December 2012.”Continue Reading
Here are four news readers different from Feedly and the about-to-shut-down Google Reader. You can read all of them on your PC.
NewsBlur offers four views:
Now you can create and save notes on Google Keep. I created this slide show while fooling around with it. This is the desktop version of Google Keep. You can create notes, save pictures and email and share them with your friends on Google + Circles. And that’s it. It’s as basic as it gets.
Hah! As soon as Google announces it is shutting down Google Reader, it is reported to be developing a new note-taking app called Keep to challenge Evernote.
Android Police pulled this image off Google Drive before the app was taken down after being apparently inadvertently released.
More than half a million Google Readers signed up to use Feedly within 48 hours of Google announcing it would be shutting down the Reader on July 1, reported Feedly. More than half a million! And yet such a large reader base was not enough to prevent Google from axing the Reader.
Google Reader will be shutting down on July 1. I love Google Reader, have been using it for years, but there are alternatives to Google Reader, which I have been using as well, and which you may try.
NewsBlur: This looks most like Google Reader. Free NewsBlur accounts, where you can currently follow only up to 12 sites, have been temporarily suspended, apparently because a flood of new users have been signing up following the news of Google Reader’s imminent shutdown. Premium accounts have access to unlimited sites.
Feedly: I love it. And it’s free. It synchronizes with Google Reader, but when the Reader shuts down, Feedly will transition to a new system called Normandy, which is a clone of the Google Reader API running on Google App Engine, that will keep things running smoothly, or so it says. I am keeping my fingers crossed.
Flipboard: I have been been reading my Google Reader feeds on Flipboard for some time, and so can you. Just sign in to your Google Reader account via Flipboard. Your feeds will be saved. You can add other RSS feeds as well to Flipboard.
Google Currents: You can add your Google Reader feeds to Google Currents, too, the Google news reader for phones and tablets.
Netvibes: You can import your Google Reader feeds into Netvibes as well.
The Old Reader: I just signed up for The Old Reader, a free news aggregator similar to the Google Reader. It reports getting lots of new users, too. Check it out.
Here’s how you can import your Google Reader feeds into NewsBlur, Feedly, The Old Reader and Netvibes.
On Flipboard, you simply have to sign in to your Google account. However, Flipboard, like Google Currents, is available only on phones and tablets, not on desktops like the others.
And, of course, you can follow the news on Facebook and Twitter.
Digg is also building a news reader which it expects to have up and running later this year.
Still, I will miss Google Reader; I loved it all these years.
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