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:

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

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

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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?