By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Let’s be honest here. We should all be honest. Google shapes our world view.

They are the information hub for most of us. What we search for and what they then return to us is chosen by computer…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

The internet is an amazing place where the psychographic is king and content is really the queen.

How do I know? Because I have more in common with a British teenager that goes by the handle RandumBoi than…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

If you are a feed junkie and like to take your world in by reading about it in Google Reader then this post is for you.

I am partially one of those people and rely…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

Back in the day, about 5 years ago to be a little more precise, podcasting was just kicking off and finding its legs.

One of the tools that helped it grow during this infancy and start…

By Staff Writer – John Federico (@gadgetboy)

Over time I’ve built a workflow that allows me to post, share and syndicate my media, status updates and interesting news with one or two clicks. (The fewer actions, the better in my opinion.)

Most of the social sharing and syndication I…

By Staff Writer – John Federico (@gadgetboy)

I’ve rekindled an old flame. (Not that kind of old flame. I’m married…)

Thanks to Sarah Perez at ReadWriteWeb, I’ve rediscovered an application that I had to leave behind when I switched from Firefox – it’s called Read the full story »

Tags: feedly , feedly for Google Chrome , Firefox Add-ons , Google Chrome Extensions , google reader , NetNewsWire , Read RSS Feeds

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

On any given day there is so much information that becomes available that it is impossible to make enough time to sift through all of it. Instead things pass us by in this river of news that we might have found valuable.…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

The question really is what happens when there are no longer applications that allow us to take web content with us on the go?

The promise of RSS was in the ability host applications to store web content for offline or…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

User: Taminania
Location: Norway
Occupation: Psychologist

These sound like the character sketch for the lead in a science fiction piece about some dystopian future. Maybe a future ruled through a bot-mediated reality? Sorry, just had…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

This is my last feed post for a while. I swear.

That said, it might be the most important one that can help startups, bloggers and established media makers begin to deliver new and better experiences to users.

Check out the …

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

This afternoon I noticed something funny happening with Google Reader shared feeds. It seems that feeds are now mixing namespaces for the main content of the posts.

Previously, all content was delivered via the ’summary’ namespace.…

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

You can only neglect your users for so long before they leave you. The same goes for lovers. And I, was in love with Google Reader once.

Then one day I realized Google Reader wasn’t loving me as much as I…