Posts Tagged ‘techcrunch50’

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 September 29, 2008 - by Wayne Sutton

Talk Social News Episode 5: Yammer, Google Android G1, using social media to explain the bailout bill and what Jason Calacanis calls the Startup Depression

The interview: Talk Social News Episode 5 – length 33:39 download or click to play:
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This week, Kipp and Wayne interview Yammer CEO David Sacks, a quick review of Google’s Andriod OS phone with T-Mobile the G1 and we review how the government could use social media to communicate with the public to inform us on what is in the bailout bill. Also we discuss how the state of the economy will effect startups, what Jason Calacanis calls the Startup Depression.

Yammer ScreenCast

Yammer on twitter

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Posted on September 15, 2008 - by Wayne Sutton

Talk Social News Episode 3: Kipp and Wayne Talk TechCrunch 50 and Interview Geoff Livingston

On this week’s episode of Talk Social News, Kipp and Wayne discuss TechCrunch 50 and Demo Fall. Geoff Livingston of the Buzz Bin talks social media marketing and trends in social media.

We also answer this weeks question submitted by @Dayers on twitter, he asks “Who’s making money off of social media besides consultants” .

Enjoy this week’s episode and please send questions for future episodes to contact@talksocialnews.com.

The interview, download or click to play:
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