Posts Tagged ‘Discover’

Posted on September 15, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

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

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 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 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 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

feedly organizes your favorite sites into a fun, magazine-like start page.

5. Alltop – http://Alltop.com

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?

Posted on July 9, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

Weekly Pitch: Magma – Explore, Discover, Collect, Share, Track Videos online

The Pitch:
Magma is an online video platform allowing you to explore, collect, and track videos from all over the internet.

Company:
All I know is: Magma Team

Product or service
Magma provides in-depth statistics and real-time tracking for discovering what people are watching, right now.
Contact information:
feedback@mag.ma
About:

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My first impressions:
Another video social network? It’s clean, simple and easy to use via the magma bookmarklet.

Will I use it?
Maybe. I like the sharing and tracking video features. Anytime you can provide analytics on videos it’s a good thing.

What features I like?
The bookmarklet. By having a bookmarklet means it will work an any browser and computer.

The homepage how the videos are categorized.
The post to twitter feature after you have added a video to your Magma channel.

What features or information would I like to see:
More about the Magma team/company.
The ability to add my video social networking profiles to my Magma profile
Auto import my videos from other video social networks
More stats.

What does Magma remind me of?
Vodpod – http://vodpod.com

Magma is currently in private beta.

If you would like for me to review your product or site please email: pitches at socialwayne dot com . Disclaimer: I have no investment or relationship with the creators of this site. Thank you.