Pageflakes – Great RSS Reader and new Friend
May 19 2007
I’m embarrassed to admit it, but it’s taken me this long to use an RSS Reader, and now I’ve fallen in love with Pageflakes. My fellow eROI blogger, Dylan Boyd – author of TheEmailWars, gives me a hard time about my slow adoption, but I never carved out the time to get an RSS Reader setup.
Here’s what I like about Pageflakes:
- Drag and drop functionality of placing your favorite feeds on your 3-column page.
- Complete control of your page – minimizing or maximizing the different feeds so you can fit a ton of RSS Feeds on your page
- Ease of use so I can see the sheer power of subscribing to all this amazing free content through RSS
It truly is sad that I’ve been speaking about RSS at tradeshows and marketing events for the past 2 years and it is only now with a killer RSS Reader and tool like Pageflakes that I get it.
Now, I’m a convert. I will always have my RSS Reader as an open tab in Firefox or IE. I pledge allegience to great RSS Readers…
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May 25th, 2007 at 6:04 am
I will still always prefer the RSS Readers that do not require a web page to be open. For example many of the IM clients have RSS news plugs and it doesn’t mess with my browsing (as a web/email developer my browser is far to busy already).
Also I like the option of having an active desktop screen…typically designed with Flash and some extras these desktops allow for RSS feeds and many other cool features. Haven’t seen much adoption of these yet tho.
And don’t forget to mention there are always the Gadgets for the OS (Google Gadgets, Vista Gadgets, Mac Widgets, etc.) that will do RSS feeds too.
My point is it doesn’t matter how you choose to get the RSS Reader, there is one to suit all needs (including some which are just emailed to your inbox).
JUST GET ON THE FEED.