Sivaraman's Column-6: "Google Reader"

Hi, Today I am taking up another Google product, "Google Reader". These Google guys are simply great. All the time they are coming up with new ideas, excellent ones at that.

Google Reader is another favourite of mine. Some of the salient features of it:

• Using Google Reader you can simply subscribe to your favourite websites and blogs and read all your news and blogs in one place.
• Google Reader constantly checks your favourite news sites and blogs for new contents. Whenever a website or blog is updated google reader brings the news to you. So you won’t miss any thing.
• Keeping up with your favorite websites is as easy as checking your email.
• Google Reader shows you all of your favourite sites in one convenient place. It’s like a personalized inbox for the entire web.
• It saves your time and you read all news and blogs in one place.
• Another important feature is you can share the interesting items very easily.
• Google Reader is totally free and you can use it with any browser. You don’t need any additional software.

To use Google Reader

• Visit http://www.google.com/reader

Sign in with your gmail account.

• You will be taken to the home page of Google Reader.
• Click the Add subscription button or press ‘A’ key in the keyboard.
• A search box will be displayed. Type a word to find its feeds or type a URL.
• Press Enter key or Add button.
• It will show the relevant information feeds and no of subscribers subscribed to it.
• You can subscribe to any feed by simply clicking the Subscribe button.
• Immediately it will show the new items in the feed. You can view all the items by clicking the ‘All Items’ option.
• You can read the items and send the item by email to your friends from Google Reader.
• You don’t need to sign in to your mail account, or send as attachments no cut, copy, paste anything.

This will be a weekly column. So see you next week. All the best and bye! - Sivaraman.