LazyFeed is a
new RSS feed engine based on topics, not sources or individuals, that
offers a new way to find information online blogs, news services,
podcasts, social media updates, and so on — content from any site that
publishes an RSS feed. The search tool has been in beta for the last couple of months,
open to new users by invitation only while its developers gathered feedback
from early users. Now, as of
August 25, LazyFeed is available to the public.
At first I wasn’t sure that LazyFeed would be a truly useful tool — not
unless you wanted to track celebrity gossp, or sports
scores, or such — but I soon changed my mind. Over the past few weeks, LazyFeed has helped me to discover a few new non-profit and/or technology
blogs, keep an eye on Twitter chat, and even catch a few media stories that I’d otherwise likely have
missed.
The most efficient way to explain LazyFeed is probably to point you the quick video tour of LazyFeed by Louis Gray that served as my own introduction:
Since the beta release (and since Gray’s video was created) LazyFeed
has made some significant changes in response to user feedback, as
outlined in the email announcing its public launch:
1. Status Bar : We now have a status bar at the
bottom of the page, which makes it easy to navigate. You can easily
access “Topics for Lazy Me” and “Saved Stuff” from here.
2. Personalization : If you don’t want to see contents from certain sources, you can block them easily by using “block this source” feature.
3. Sharing :
You can now share your interesting discoveries with your friends on
Twitter, Facebook, and with Email. You only need one click to do this,
so try it!
For more information, you can view an updated video tour of LazyFeed by its CEO, Ethan Gahng, or try out the topic-based RSS search tool for yourself at LazyFeed.com — no invitation code is needed.