RSS reader built in to a social network. You can find new feeds through your friends or through what the community is talking about. You have a pocket (kinda like shared docs on google) where you can save favorite posts and videos. And you can now even shyft your friends pockets as a feed to your feed list. I have all my facebook and twitter feeds etc coming in as well.

It’s still beta, but runs very smooth and already has a ton of feeds in there, and importing OPLM is coming soon.

First thing in the morning I’ll have about 5-10 tags that bubbled up that I hit first and then work my way down until nothing jumps out of the cloud. Then I hit individual feeds to see what’s left. When the IPhone SDK hit the IPhone tag had so much weight behind it that it was the only tag in the cloud.

This is just a toy for me with no plans of releasing it.

Slow news day?

Lifehacker wrote that Alertle moves faster than Google Reader and has wider support for audio/video..

ReadWriteWeb wrote that Alertle is simple and ‘cool’ enough for mainstream users..

Mashable, Blogoscoped and some others had something to say about it as well..

How about you ?

Definitely twitter has grown on me.

It’s like twitter + casual pictures + geolocation.

So now that I’m all a Twitter (@accce) and Duncan Riley has suggested being in the right network as one of the ways to be on top of the latest news…can anyone recommend some good networks I should be plugging into? Obviously, I’m most inte…

When I show normal people twitter, they all say, without exception:

“Why would I want to use that”?

I then explain that I, as a contract product manager in the industry, have to be current, and that I use a feed reader annd use it to read maybe….100 feeds like TechCrunch, daily.

Then I show them how to subscribe. Now, they don’t all get it at first. What you say these people are less than smart – no no no…they are all my betters, make more money than me, and have better education. Even after I demonstrate the once over to them, many still ask, “how does that work again?”

It’s not them – it’s us, the ‘industry’, if you will. We have done a crappy job of explaing RSS, in including the very name and symbol, to the world of normal people.

We are not normal. We are web IT people. We click on everything and spend time commenting on each other’s blogs. There are normal folks out there that never got on board.

Take your own survey at the supermarket – “excuse me, do you what a blog is? RSS? Do you use a ‘feed reader?’

You will be surprised how isolated you are, knowlege wise, outside of the Valley and few isolated hotspots.

We’ve got a few fun things in store

Pete

We let you organize web pages and RSS feeds in a consistent manner; create, share, and discover collections; comment and rate on any of the content, and set any feeds to alert you directly to the desktop. And it complements/works with personal start pages like Netvibes.

The performance and usability of a desktop app makes it like iTunes, but for all of your web stuff.

We just went into private beta yesterday. You can request an invite here: http://www.elum...BetaSignup.aspx

Thanks,

Joe Lichtenberg
VP, Bus Dev
Eluma

There is a wordpress plugin there for sure. I intend to write one to do this for diystartupnews so if I will share it if there is not one there already.

I don’t use techmeme because I read all the main sites and I don’t like to read the same thing twice. If you go on a site like originalsignal.com you can spot the big story from there because all the main blogs have it.

My stats is probably laughable compared with yours, as I’m busy with my work and kids…

“From your 102 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 16,446 items, starred 0 items, shared 0 items, and emailed 0 items.”