DISQUS

Not So Relevant: Google Reader Needs Filters

  • hackr · 3 months ago
    did you try feedly? ( http://feedly.com/ )

    postrank also has an extension for google reader which ranks by popularity.
  • Carsten Pötter · 3 months ago
    No, haven't tried Feedly yet. It's Firefox only, isn't it? Usually I rely on Safari.

    I will have a look at Postrank, though. I wanted to have a closer look at it a loooong time ago already.
  • Louis Gray · 3 months ago
    Feedly is a new interface to Google Reader. It is Firefox only BUT there is a way to use it with Safari as well.

    http://blog.feedly.com/2009/07/31/experimental-...
  • Carsten Pötter · 3 months ago
    Ah, sounds good. I will give it a try.
  • Mitchell McKenna · 3 months ago
    I 2nd the Feedly recommendation!
  • Harrison Powers · 3 months ago
    Thirded. Unfortunately all of your options at this point require Firefox.
  • Gerald Hildebrandt · 3 months ago
    I am using the Firefox extension "Better GReader" (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/...) and the Greasemonkey script "Google Reader Filter" (http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/23671) to hide duplicates and use filter rules.

    However, a list of relevance by number of followers shaing the same article would be a great enhancement.
  • Carsten Pötter · 3 months ago
    Even more Firefox goodies. If I'll find some spare time I will test it. But I don't want to switch to Firefox completely. :(
  • guttertec · 3 months ago
    I also appreciate Fever - http://feedafever.com/. They do some nice work by sorting on your interests but though all those services can't come up as fast as Google is putting new features into Google Reader. Thats why I am always stuck with Google - it's just a matter of time until Google will implement filters…
  • Carsten Pötter · 3 months ago
    Never heard of Fever. I will have a look at it as well. :)
  • hjvanderklis · 3 months ago
    I use the FFAideRSS Google Reader extension (http://gr.aiderss.com/). Formerly known as PageRank, it uses relevance ranking and de-duper logic to present you only relevant feeds. You can filter feeds to get all, good, better or best only feeds.
  • smilbandit · 3 months ago
    I've been building my own reader that has some very different features then most out there. I blog slowly about it at tubejumper.com and I put out some screenshots a year ago, http://www.flickr.com/photos/26597120@N00/sets/...
    This is just a toy for me as a test bed for consuming information, there isn't a release and probably never will be.