Feedly: Turning Google Reader Into A Social Flow

I have been heads down for the past few days -- no, I am not a full-time blogger -- and somehow only was twigged to Feedly, the new Firefox plugin that revitalizes Google Reader. Basically, Feedly uses the information about RSS feeds and your various contacts in Google Reader, but presents it in a number of significantly more interesting and useful ways.

Here is the What's New view, which pulls posts that are recent:

F | what's new?, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd.

The Wall view looks like a Friendfeed stream, including comments.

F | the wall, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd.

I haven't had a chance to fool around with much of the other gimmicks in the tool, but it's beautiful to look at, and leverages my previous sizable investment in Google Reader (where I hardly go anymore), and seems to introduce a range of features over and above what's in Friendfeed. I will fool with it for a week or so, and come back with some more substantive assessment of the sociality inherent in the tool.

And, oh by the way, where's the Twitter integration?

Comments

[Edwin Khodabakchian]

Hi Stowe,
Thanks for the post. Looking forward to listening to your suggestions on how to improve the concept.

Re: twitter, there is an option to tweet an article to share it with your friends. Let's us know what else you would like to see. http://www.getsatisfaction.com/feedly

Best,
Edwin

[Richard Bradshaw]

Just saw this on my Feedly wall... It's a brilliant extension isn't it! Why can't it just be a standalone website - does it do some magic when it's run as an extension?

[Stephen Collins]

I've been poking around Feedly since someone at Enterprise 2.0 twigged me to it. Like you, I think it does crazy, amazing things for my feeds. Most of which I'm only just starting to get my mind around.

It's truly lovely, and I think the Feedly folks are really on to something.