Posts Tagged ‘feedly’

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 October 13, 2008 - by Wayne Sutton

Talk Social News Episode 7: Louis Gray is Social Media, plus the Return of Innovation, Startup Advice and WallStreet

This week on Talk Social News Kipp and Wayne interview Louis Gray author of LouisGray.com. Louis has been handed the blogging keys by Jason Calacanis and some have asked is he the next Robert Scoble. I say he is Louis Gray, the father of twins, marketing specialists, blogger of Silicon Valley, adviser of ReadBurner and one of the smartest guys in Social Media today. Even if you’re just interested in blogging or you wonder how someone like Louis processes and gathers information you’ll enjoy this podcast. But don’t take my word for it, download and listen to the podcast yourself.

The interview: Talk Social News Episode 7 – length 51:01 download or click to play:
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After you listen to the podcast, now I can say I told you so, here are a few of the links that Louis referenced:

March 3, 2007
10 Suggestions to Improve Google Reader

January 7, 2008
ReadBurner, In Stealth Mode, Looking to Sort Shared Feed Items

April 8, 2008
Former Jobster CEO’s Social|Median Incubating in Alpha

April 7, 2008
BlogRize Builds A Community Around Your Blog and its Readers

June 16, 2008
Feedly Brings New Social Experience to Start Page, Leveraging RSS

For our “What the Blog” section of the podcast, Kipp reviews the return of innovation conversations surrounding the state of the economy and how we’ll see more useful startups in the next six months.

The “Fail” of the week is Wall Street. With tech stocks failing this week such as Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT) and Apple (AAPL) times are looking rough but we take a look at what Silicon Alley Insider says: Don’t Panic – Profit.

Also we’ll have a special Talk Social News podcast tomorrow after Apple’s Notebook event. So just subscribe to our iTunes or RSS feed for the latest episode of Talk Social News.

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