A few years ago, my dear friend Cecilia recommended me to use Google reader as an aggregator of feeds (not her words, but the idea was along those lines). At that point I was quite comfortable and satisfied using iGoogle (Google homepage solution) which added extra widgets like e-mail, weather, calendar and what not.
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| Old iGoogle with some widgets. |
Slowly my use of iGoogle was reduced only to a feeds aggregator without the use of any of the fancy widgets. As such, iGoggle was not very comfortable anymore but I kept using it until now.
Some months ago, Google decided to kill the iGoogle service giving its users until November 2013 to do as they see fit. Obviously this drove me looking for alternatives. I've found basically two alternatives that they could be complementary to each other. The first one is to use Goggle Reader which works fine for me and as a web application I can see it anywhere.
The second solution, is a small Chrome extension which looks good. As an extension, it's present in all my Chrome instances where I'm synchronized so has the almost same level of presence as Google Reader it doesn't share any feed within the multiple instances. One "advantage" is that shows notifications as new elements appear in the feeds.
I'm still open to alternatives, but for now I'll keep experimenting with these two and see what kind of balance/complementarity I achieve between them. But I already expect to be based solely on Google Reader.
Now one drawback I'm feeling already after one day, is that my information overload will increase... and in this moment that's something I don't need.
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