Feedly as a Google Reader alternative

In the first 48 hours since the recent announcement from Google that it would close its Google Reader service on 1 July Feedly claims more than 500,000 users of the suddenly-doomed RSS reader signed up to its service.

It would certainly account for the occasional slowness of the Feedly app, though it seems pretty much back to normal now.

Having found Feedly earlier this year in a bid to make it easier to access my Google Reader subscriptions I may inadvertently have found its replacement.

I’d already dismissed Summly (complicated, not intuitive – though clearly lucrative), Taptu (‘DJ your news’ … seriously!) and. for my work feeds at least, Flipboard (though it has a lovely interface).

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Googling digital pharma

This video was made with Google’s Search Stories and if it had a voiceover, the narrative would run something like this: