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Google Reader Tutorial Video

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

Google Reader is an RSS reader tool that helps you stay in touch with more web sites in less time. It consolidates new articles from sites all over the web in one single, easy-to-use interface, and helps you share your favorite articles with your friends. Brent Ozar explains Google Reader this four minute video tutorial.

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In the videos, Brent talks about these sites:

  • Google Reader – the online RSS reader tool.
  • Brent’s Shared Google Reader items – if you want to get notified of his favorite SQL Server blog posts.
  • AideRSS PostRank – the best/great/good filtering plugin for Reader that helps you catch up with the most popular blog entries quickly.
  • URLFan – find out when other people mention your blog or link to it.
  • Search.Twitter.com – find out when anyone mentions your name or your site’s name on Twitter.

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