Keep Yourself Updated with Your Favorite Websites Using FeedReader

In this article I will tell you about the most useful feature that has been introduced by the web2.0 technology. Any web enthusiast who spends a significant amount of time on the internet, benefits a lot from this feature. I am talking about FeedReader. It is not new, but it is still unknown to a wide range of internet users.

What is FeedReader?

Feedreader collects web feeds from different sites and shows them in one place. Web feeds or news feeds are a data format used to provide users with frequently updated content of a website. With the help of FeedReader users can get updates from different websites in one place, without visiting each and every website individually. This saves a lot of time for web enthusiasts. The updates can be anything ranging from latest news on MSN to the newly published articles on AssociatedContent.

My FeedReader saves me a lot of time. I use it to keep myself updated on different blogs and new websites. Visiting each website individually is a very time consuming process. But, with the help of FeedReader I get all the updates in one place. You can use FeedReader to track any kind of information that you like.

For example, a new site like Google News can offer feeds on the latest news. Similarly, a sports news website can keep you updated with the recent scores of a match. FeedReader brings all these feeds together in one place and you don't have to visit each website individually to keep yourself updated with the latest news.

How to use FeedReaders?

Feedreader can be used from your desktop or from your browser. Using a Feedreader is very easy. You just have to add the website with which you want to keep yourself updated. Just follow the following simple steps:

1) First of all you will need to make it clear that the website with which you want to keep your self updated, offers web feeds. Websites that offer feed usually use RSS, XML or ATOM icons displayed on the pages.

2) When you will click on the icon you will be redirected to the feed page. Just copy the address displayed on that page to your Feedreader and you are done.

Most of the popular web based Feedreaders are free. Some of them are My Yahoo, Pluck, My AOL, Netvibes (which I use), and Pageflakes etc

Conclusion:

That is all you need to know about Feedreader. I think it is a fun way to keep yourself updated with your favorite websites, blogs and all types of latest news. For web enthusiasts like me, it saves a lot of time. So, if you are a web junkie then you should definitely try FeedReader.