Oct 09 2007
Tools for Productivity - Bloglines Beta
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I had an epiphany about RSS feeds a few months ago. I find that subscribing to feeds from business, marketing and technical blogs and publications allows me to track the information I need as a marketing executive in an internet software company. So I have subscribed to over hundred feeds and can do a pretty good job of scanning them for key stories. The key, though, to making following all these feeds manageable is an RSS reader.
When I first started subscribing to feeds I used the simple functionality in IE, but after only a few days got frustrated and started looking around for recommendations. Bloglines was the clear favorite, so I started using it. Being able to group my feeds by topic was great. I have 11 folders now for both the business and personal feeds I read. I will subscribe to any feed that looks interesting and read it for a few days or weeks and if it doesn’t contribute I remove it. Recently Bloglines released a beta upgrade that has a lot of great features that make reading feeds from many sources a lot easier to scan for the good stuff, while still making reading my favorite feeds enjoyable.
For a comparison, I recently tried the Google Reader, but found that I couldn’t sort the feeds in a way that I liked. So I recommend Bloglines Beta.
We’re glad you like Bloglines. We still have some new features and surprises coming up. We hope you like them.