Increase Your Productivity and Social Value with Techmeme and Feedly

I have a confession. I'm an information junkie. I am subscribed to 500 RSS feeds, two newspapers (yes, the actual physical paper thing), dozens of podcasts, and occasionally watch TV via Livestation. If you are like me, you need to:

1. Quickly going through this massive amount of information

2. Identify new valuable resources

And, as a true believer in the phrase sharing is caring, I always look for easy ways to share my favorite posts.

Techmeme and Feedly are godsend for me.

Techmeme is the best content discovery site today. The site, which uses both algorithms and human screening, displays the most important stories in the web. It also gathers the discussion around key items, helping the reader to get a full view of the conversation around it.

But it's the new kid in town, Feedly, that made me drop my jaw. In the past I was using Netvibes as my online RSS aggregator. When I moved to Google Reader, I enjoyed the sharing function, but not the interface.

Feedly is the best of both world - with tons of additional features.

Feedly is a Firefox extension that extracts Google Reader's OPML and organize it in a magazine style interface

Feedly supports tabs, where one can divide his or hers sources to contextual or thematic groups, and adds a "front page" called Digest, which includes the top news. Most of my feeds deliver full enclosures, so I can read all my feeds without leaving Feedly.

But what makes it such an amazing tool is its social aspects: users can twit, share, email, bookmark it with delicious and see FriendFeed discussions, directly from Feedly, without leaving the post. This one-click sharing feature is just begging you to use it - for your, and your followers benefit. This functionality is available also when browsing other sites, though it is not consistent - in some cases, a small toolbar appear in the lower right side of the browser, allowing you to directly twit the article you are reading.

Users can also annotate posts, and receive recommendations for additional resources, based on their RSS feeds.

Feedly and Techmeme are must haves for any information junkie.