We are well past the dark ages of placing RSS feeds into our favorite news readers and browsers to stay up-to-date with the latest online trends. While RSS is still embraced today as a standard, mobile apps and social networking is making it a lot easier to go from having nothing at all to having a centralized news hub. Whether you are a developer or just an average tech lover, you should consider trying at least one of these approaches to getting the latest buzz.
Subscribing to Your Favorite Social Pages
Facebook and Twitter will always be for socializing on the surface. But search for big brands like Coca-Cola or noticeable names in the tech industry like WordPress and you will see how socially active these companies are. Many blogging platforms and content management systems have tight social networking integration so you can be sure that announcements such as the upcoming WordPress 4.0 will be posted on Facebook and Twitter the moment it released. Subscribing to news blogs can bring you more diverse coverage. Then don’t forget those famous personalities that share particular updates that you might find interesting too. Even DevRadius has a dedicated Twitter account that actively shares trending news and interesting tidbits.
Using a Mobile News Reader
Depending on how engaged you are in social networking, you may find that your news feeds in Facebook and Twitter are too cluttered with an unbalanced mixture of posts from your friends, funny images, rants and trending news. If you want to focus solely on the news, you are better off installing a mobile news reader to your tablet or smartphone. Feedly, Flipboard and Zite are just some of the popular apps available right now. Feedly lets you add RSS feeds if you like and has a great user interface while Zite is a better discovery tool for trending news that may come from sites you never heard of before. The best thing is that you can install all these apps and try each of them without running into any conflicts.