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FreedReader

Strengths

• Free to the user

• Easy to Register

• Very easy to customize your pages, can have a page for each subject

• You can easily change the on page headline display by clicking Deck or River. Deck will divide the page up into feeds and display a list of headlines. River aggregates and lists headlines vertically together with an icon for the source and the time published.

• Easy to add RSS feeds

• Easy to access links

• Easy to edit your pages and to add and delete links

• You can quickly scan lots of headlines/stories

• You can have unlimited pages of text, video, audio and pages

Weaknesses

• Doesn’t give as many edit options as Bloglines

• Although it is easy to create a page it took me a little while to work out how to do it. There is a link to view tutorial, but I didn’t find this very helpful.

Opportunities

• Easy to organise information so ideal for students or researchers to set up an RSS feed reader to keep up to date

• Can embed RSS feeds in Blogs, web pages

Threats

• At the moment this software is free, but this could change in the future

• There is now guarantee that the reader will be available forever, so information could be lost.

• There may be accessibility issues