Feedly was brought to my attention not along ago by a fellow blogger in an interesting post featuring her preferred online tools and websites. In addition to Feedly, I investigated her other recommendations and have also added SimilarWeb to my Firefox web browser per her suggestion:
I also frequently use the “SimilarWeb” Firefox browser add-on (www.similarweb.com/) whenever I land on a Web site that interests me. This add-on provides me with links to: (1) similar Web sites; (2) related articles from news sites and blogs; and (3) the latest social media buzz about the Web site. It’s an invaluable tool that is a real time saver.
With regard to Feedly, it links to your established Google account/ID and has a nice feature set for organizing your blog subscriptions by the subject areas that you designate. What I especially like about Feedly is that when you add a new blog feed subscription, it presents a list entitled “you might also like” with links to other similar blogs which you than quickly and easily subscribe to as well. Using this method, you can accumulate a library of multiple pertinent blog subscriptions in ten minutes or less. After that, visiting your Feedly page two or three times per week provides you with ready access to a wealth of current information on your topics of interest.
My use of Feedly represents a departure from my previous favored method of subscribing to blog feeds: RSS-to-email. What happened there was that FeedMyInbox.com began charging a monthly fee for anything above five RSS feeds — defying the standard business model of such services profiting off advertising revenue rather than charging user fees. Perhaps if their usage rate plummets (as I expect it will), FeedMyInbox.com might return to their previous practice of providing unlimited free RSS feed subscriptions. In the meantime, though, I’m finding Feedly to be just as good of a solution — and perhaps even better — than FeedMyInbox.
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