Goodbye Google Reader, Hello SNATZ

When Google Reader disappeared last July 2013, many of us were left scratching our heads and wondering “what now?”.

The infographic below explains what happened to the service, taking a look at its timeline, and its death. If you still haven’t found a newsreader service to meet your needs, there’s a new player in town: it’s called SNATZ, a free web app at http://snatz.com - and it’s just right for busy techies who are short on time.

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Feedly for Android

Earlier this week I walked you through the process of migrating to Feedly from Google Reader.

It’s a remarkably simple process to migrate. You could say it’s as easy as 1, 2, 3. Install Feedly, click a button and grant permission for Feedly to access your Google Reader feeds and enjoy your reading. There’s nothing more to it.

While I’ve been making brilliant use of Feedly on my desktop I have to admit that I’ve still been using Google Reader on my tablet. Yesterday that changed and I made the jump to Feedly for Android.

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How to Migrate from Google Reader to Feedly

With Google's shock announcement that they would be closing Google Reader come July 1st people are now looking for alternatives to take it's place.  It's was even one of my top 10 Android apps to have. One possible alternative to Google Reader is Feedly.

Feedly is a cloud based feed reader and is available for Web Browsers and Mobile operating systems - both Feedly iOS and Feedly Android. It uses a minimalistic magazine layout, has incredible social network integration and allows a huge degree of customization. Couple all that with a completely seamless Google Reader migration and it's easy to see why it's been one of the more popular choices to switch to.

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