Post-Google Reader Experience: An Update

I'm still experimenting with the post-Google Reader world. I find myself using two iPad apps fairly regularly to replace the Googe Reader experience: Flipboard and Feedly. Both have allowed me to import my old list of blog feeds that I read in Google Reader, and both allow a "magazine" type of experience to view articles, feeds, and so on.

The biggest difference so far is that Feedly has options to view "magazine" layout and the more Google like line layout.

 This picture (below) shows the "list" style, very similar to what Google Reader used as the default. You can see a number of article listings simultaneously. Tapping on a title will bring up the article or a short blurb that links to the full article.

This picture (below) shows the "magazine" layout, similar to Flipboard. It shows graphics from the original source, full title, and usually the first few lines or even first paragraph of the article. Tapping on the title will bring up the full article or a short blurb that links to the article.

 

Feedly now offers options to mark all or part as read, to save links, and to add additional feeds. It is a fairly good alternative to the old Google Reader, but I'm still having to remember to pick up my iPad to read it.

 

More on this as I learn to use the app more efficently.

 

Follow up on Google Reader

I posted about Google Reader going dark July 1 and have wondered what to do about it. I found a workaround for now by accessing my Google Reader feeds via my Flipboard app on my iPad. If you use Google Reader and Flipboard, here are the instructions to get you started.

1. Open the Flipboar app.
2. Tap the red ribbon icon in the upper right corner.
3. Tap the Accounts link (should be second link).
4. Tap "Google Reader" from the ADD AN ACCOUNT listing.
5. Sign in using your Google Reader id.
6. Tap off to the side to dismiss the add content side bar.
7. Tap the new Google Reader icon to start reading.

You can still look at individual feeds and folders by tapping the Google Reader icon at the top of the page and choosing the "Feeds & Folders" link.

Pros: you can still access your RSS feeds.
Cons: you have to flip multiple pages to see the entire list for a feed.

Flipboard on iPhone

The highly popular iPad app, Flipboard, has a new version (1.7) available for iPhone. You can connect and log into social networks, shared photos, read blogs, articles and other publications. Free download and screenshots on iTunes.