Friday, 16 April 2010

It's not a common Chrome extension

I love Google Reader. It is simple, not invasive, organized and great for sharing relevant content with a lot of smart and interesting people. Really, I love it, but recently I got a bit bored. I wanted to filter more content, wanted to see more things at one time, so I decided to go for some Chrome extension to help me cope with my "information overflow" and there I found: Feedly.
The creators of Feedly really know how the print and newspaper media work and attract readers; their extension allows for visually compelling reorganization of content coming from the feeds in a mosaic-like way. Just a glance and you have visuals, titles, summaries at your fingertips (or your eyeballs) in a cool visual way, with great room for content organization.
The nice thing of Feedly is its immediate synchronization with Google Reader. At the beginning I didn't realize how all of my feeds were duplicated into this new extension page, but it took me just a second to notice that the Google Account served me well.
As also Donald Norman says pretty and beautiful things do make us happier in using them. They give back pleasure and we enjoy using them for their functionality but mostly because they fulfill the need for aesthetic. Feedly is aesthetically enjoyable and functional. I am totally recommending it to anyone of my readers and assuring I will be using it quite a lot.

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