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Feedly: The Best Browser RSS Reader

Dean Sherwin — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:22:24 +0000

I though I’d share with you guys an RSS reader that I started using recently called Feedly. Basically it’s and add-on for most browsers including Chrome and Firefox which combines all your RSS feeds into one incredible place that by far surpasses generic readers such as Google.

Here is a screenshot:

What I like most about is that it also combines other services such as GMail and Twitter into the same package so you’re getting all of your information in the one place instead of having several tabs open.

It’s free and its easy to set up once you have installed it as an add-on. Click here to download Feedly.

Unify your Feeds with FeedStitch

Augusto Alvarez — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:23:43 +0000

There’s nothing new if I say that the exponential growth from Internet made the data available for all of us a little bit harder to handle; and of course you can feel this consequence directly with your feeds. FeedStitch tries to simplify that by giving you the chance to unify your common feeds into one.

Using this web app it’s very simple, you only need the feeds URL, add them, and create the category. After that, you can visualize the entries directly from one place and as viewing a blog. You don’t even have to register, you can use any of these accounts to login and create your FeedStitch: Gmail, Twitter, Yahoo!, Facebook, AOL and openID.

Using FeedsStitch:

Start adding your feseds.

Complete the category lists and create the feeds group (in this case, I’m creating “System Center”)

Viewing System Center feeds

You can also customize the name of the URL that represents the FeedStich feed group.

For me, I can never have enough time to review and read all my feeds, and this web app sounds like a good way to arrange and optimize your time.

Join The Crenk Community

Steven Finch — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:19:22 +0000

Join the Crenk community!

Twitter – Crenk Account – follow us

Subscribe to Crenk – via our RSS feed

Here at Crenk we are looking to build the community and discussions around web startups. If you have any questions or suggestions please get in touch.

Are Feedburner Currently Making Huge Changes To The Way They Collect Numbers?

Steven Finch — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:28:27 +0000

What is currently happening with Feedburner stats? Is Google somehow updating the service, because in the last few days I have seen a huge drop in Google Feedfetch numbers within Feedburner. I thought I would also spend sometime trolling around the web to see if other sites have been affected by this situation and what I have noticed is that all sites have been affected by this. I was hoping Feedburner might be able to let us know if they are updating this system and why there are such drastic changes.

Is Twitter an Alternative for RSS Readers and Subscriptions?

Steven Finch — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:19:28 +0000

Currently for Crenk we have been noticing that more and more people are following our feed on Twitter. It has got to a stage now where there are more people adding us on Twitter everyday than subscribing to our RSS feed. Is this saying something? Is Twitter becoming more of an RSS reader for people or are they just following our feed in Twitter because we are fairly active and give actual responses to direct questions?

There has been a lot of talk recently about companies still not adopting new media as much as they should and especially Twitter, but I really cant understand why! Twitter is an amazing network tool for all types of companies and it can actually provide big organisation with an easy way to directly communicate with users. Branding on Twitter is easy to control and even easier to see who has been discussing your brand.

From my point of view I couldn’t live without my RSS reader, simply because I have so many sources of information and I can easily and effectively control and read them. Twitter could never be my RSS reader, but is it some kind of substitute?

RSS Feed Advertising – Google Now Joins This Market, Launches Adsense for Feeds

Steven Finch — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 08:18:34 +0000

RSS advertising has long been an underutilised revenue stream. On Friday Google Launched feed advertising with Adsense, and there has been a lot of buzz around the internet.

Although there might be some issues with migrating a feedburner feed account you are already using for your site, this is highlighted in the Daily Blog Tips link above.

Here at Crenk we have tried to not only sign up for Google Adsense, but also we have gone back to testing another RSS feed advertising provider, Pheedo. Im going to test both of these services at the same time and hope to report on the results. So stay tuned!

Feed Compare: Compare Subscriber Numbers From Any Feedburner Account

Steven Finch — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:53:24 +0000

I was reading about an interesting product over at Webappers today, Feed Compare. Feed Compare is a free web application that can be used to compared feedburner feed counts from any website that has enable their feed counter. This tool is great, simple and easy to use. Users just have to find out the feedburner address of the feeds they want to compare and then insert them into this compete looking tool.

Features for this tool include: viewing up to 24 months worth of data (other options are: 12 months, 6 months, 3 months and one month). Zoom in on particular timeframes using click and drag. Users can link directly to the feed comparisons chart much like Alexa ‘permalink’ style. And it allows users compare up to 4 feeds at a time.