ReadWriteWeb: Facebook Could Become World’s Leading News Reader (Sorry Google)
Thursday, 4 February 2010, 09:04
"Services like MyYahoo and iGoogle saw some traction and many readers here may have a Google Reader account, but dedicated RSS (really simple syndication) feed reading services have never lived up to their potential to become a mainstream phenomenon. These days many people say they just wait until links get shared on Twitter and they never use a feed reader at all. Late last week Facebook threw its hat in the ring and called on users to use its service as a news feed reader."
Hitwise Intelligence: Facebook Largest News Reader?
Thursday, 4 February 2010, 09:02
Heather Hopkins: "Facebook was the #4 source of visits to News and Media sites last week, after Google, Yahoo! and msn. News and Media is the #11 downstream industry after Facebook, receiving 3.69% of the social networking site's traffic."
Official Google Reader Blog: Follow changes to any website
Tuesday, 26 January 2010, 08:53
"[We're] rolling out a change in Google Reader that lets you create a custom feed to track changes on pages that don't have their own feed."
BeatBlogging.Org: Screencast: How to use RSS and Google Reader for journalism
Monday, 23 February 2009, 22:56
"We use Google Reader to demonstrate how RSS and RSS feed readers can be a powerful journalism tool. RSS feeds and feed readers can allow journalists to easily monitor a lot of disparate news sources."
