Thursday - June 21, 2007

Google Reader Rocks

For years, I have used the Newsgator Outlook plugin (no longer available) to get my RSS feeds into Outlook.

Our company recently upgraded to Office 2007, which has a built-in RSS reader, but it is not configured properly for our firewall, so feeds were sporadic at best and completely broken at worst.

So last week, I tried Google Reader.  Now I’ll admit, I’ve not tried a lot of the online news readers, but I am sold on this one already.  I’ve removed almost all of the feeds in Outlook and now have them all in this reader.  Even though its not in my Outlook folders, this is much more manageable in that it shows the newest links first, marks them as read by simply scrolling over them, and parses the XML much better than Outlook does.

Am I missing an even better product out there?  What do you all use?

Posted by Drew458     on 06/21/2007 at 10:19 AM   
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