Make Your Own Feed Reader with Google Spreadsheets [How To]

Posted by Karim Baz

June 13, 2008

The Digital Inspiration blog shows how to create your own web page or embeddable widget that shows live feeds from your choice of web sites. Using Google Spreadsheets’ publishing function, it takes only a little bit of cell hacking to pull in and customize feed items, and you simply publish only the cells containing the feed links when you’re done. Helpful for start pages, personal web pages, or creating a reader for only the top feeds you need to stay on top of. Update: Now with a live iFrame of my sample reader.