Feedly adds 500,000 Google Reader users to its kitty

Google’s loss is Feedly’s gain clearly, as more than 500,000 former Google Reader loyalists have flocked to adopt the latter’s RSS service. With Google pulling the plug on its aggregation service, users are searching for alternate services, even as other RSS readers are going full-steam ahead with trying to attract them.  Feedly announced that within 48 hours of Google announcing its plans to kill off Google Reader, 500,000 former users had joined Feedly. The makers of the service said that they had been anticipating Google’s move to retire Google Reader and they had been working on a project called Normandy that is a Feedly clone of Google Reader API – running on Google App Engine. “When Google Reader shuts down, feedly will seamlessly transition to the Normandy back end. So if you are a Google Reader user and using feedly, you are covered: the transition will be seamless,” they wrote. Click here for full story