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5 new ways to filter, find and read blog content. Blogs are back!

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It seems like innovation has hit the technology community again especially in the RSS / blogging / content aggregation sector. Just a few months ago everyone was talking about or how micro-blogging sites such as Twitter would kill blogs. People were saying RSS was too slow and everyone would be using people aggregation to find information in the terms of if something was important, people through social networks such as Facebook & Twitter would tell find information that way instead of reading blogs.

While that may stay true for some, new ways of filtering, finding and reading content have emerged helping users find relevant content to their interest. Let’s take a look.

1. YourVersion – http://www.yourversion.com
YourVersion - Discover Your Version of the Web™
YourVersion continuously discovers new and personally relevant web content based on your interests, and lets you easily bookmark and share your discoveries with friends.
YourVersion was recently named DemoPit peoples’ choice winner at TechCrunch50

2. Google Fast Flip – http://fastflip.googlelabs.com
Google Fast Flip
Google Fast Flip is a web application that lets users discover and share news articles. It combines qualities of print and the Web, with the ability to “flip” through pages online as quickly as flipping through a magazine. It also enables users to follow friends and topics, discover new content and create their own custom magazines around searches.

3. LazyFeed – http://www.lazyfeed.com
Lazyfeed
Lazyfeed is a web service that allows you to subscribe to any topics and get live updates. Just save any topic you are interested in, and forget about it. Lazyfeed will remember and let you know when there’s new content on that topic, just like an instant messenger. Lazyfeed allows you to stay on top of everything you care about, effortlessly.

4. Feedly (Firefox plug-in) – http://www.feedly.com
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feedly organizes your favorite sites into a fun, magazine-like start page.

5. Alltop – http://Alltop.com
Alltop - Top Blogging News
The purpose of Alltop is to help you answer the question, “What’s happening?” in “all the topics” that interest you.

While Feedly and Alltop have been online a lot longer than LazyFeed, Google Fast Flip and YourVersion, I thought they could be useful to the non-tech readers of SocialWayne.com.

Google Reader is still my preferred choice to read blogs but with features like auto discovery of new content LazyFeed and YourVersion are good tools for bloggers looking to find content or just to keep up with the latest news from the social web / blogosphere.

Out of the five tools which one do you use? What do you use to read blogs?



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    September 16, 2009

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    Anton said:


    Hi! Great article! I think especially Lazyfeed is interesting of these, it’s very easy to use and has a great potential.

    Have you read about Twingly Channels? It will fit in this list from 1st of october ;) . Here’s some more details: http://blog.twingly.com/2009/09/02/this-is-twingly-channels/

    Are you interested in more info, or want an invite when we’re launching the beta 1st oct, please let me know.

    Best regards,

    Anton Johansson, Twingly
    anton@twingly.com

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  1. Wayne Sutton - 15. Sep, 2009

    New Blog Post: 5 new ways to filter, find and read blog content. Blogs are back! http://socialwayne.com/pyy
  2. Jayson Flint - 15. Sep, 2009

    RT @waynesutton: New Blog Post: 5 new ways to filter, find and read blog content. Blogs are back! http://socialwayne.com/pyy


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