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F*ck Google Glass! Top 3 Google Reader alternatives
March 15, 2013 | Author: Adam Levine
So, Google is closing Google Reader in order to focus on more important projects, such as Google Glass. If you want to know what Hitler thinks about it - watch the video. May be the numerous petitions will make Google change its mind, but in any case, now it's appropriate to talk about alternative solutions. There are a lot of alternative RSS readers, but basically, these are very weak solutions. It's logical, because there was no sense to seriously develop RSS service, having the free Google Reader as rival. Hopefully, the best alternative to Google Reader will appear in the next 3 months. In the meantime, we suggest three options that look decent right now:
Netvibes
Netvibes - is a French service, which has long been on the market. They even sell the enterprise solution for creating intranet dashboards. It works quickly and reliably. Even yesterday during the invasion of Google Reader users the service worked fine. In Netvibes you can quickly import your feeds from Google Reader. Unfortunately, there are no native apps for Android / iPhone, but it provides the mobile web-interfaces that are quite slow, but in general - working properly.
Feedly
Besides Netvibes, there are few services that have considerable drawbacks (Feedly, BazQux, OldReader, NewsBlur). Of them - we would recommend Feedly. It provides a perfect web interface and even mobile apps for Android/iPhone. But it's the browser plugin, so you can't use it on several computers. There is actually the sync option, but it works via Google Reader. Despite this, the service looks most promising, if Feedly build the own feed server (BTW they have promised to do it).
FeedDemon
If you read the news on one computer, you may consider installing a desktop program to read RSS. The best of them (for Windows) - is FeedDemon. The main advantage - no one will be able to take it away, this program will always work. There are two FeedDemon versions - paid and free. The free - has a small ad unit. The paid provides additional features, such as filtering feeds by keyword. It costs $20.
See also: Top 10 News Readers
