I subscribe to a massive amount of RSS feeds in my Google Reader to keep me up-to-date with the Internet’s pulse. As many people can’t live without their morning coffee, I honestly don’t know what I would do without my daily dose of Google Reader. While it would take me eons to visit all of these sites I follow, Google Reader brings all of them to me and increases my research productivity. I highly recommend it if you are new to RSS.

Every day I come across valuable links in my RSS subscriptions that I want to share with you. Consider this post my “5 Noteworthy Links” debut. I will bring these kind of links to you regularly. Let me know if they benefit you.

• The 100 Best Business Books of All Time (from MOOTBOX)
• Learning for Free Online: The OpenCourseWare Movement (from Global Advances Blog)
• Bill Gates wants to help the third world with cellphone banking (from CrunchGear)
• 10 Best Free Speech Web Hosts Compared — 2009 (from WHDb)
• “The Top 20 Social Networks of 2008″ (from Mashable)