One of the startups launching today at the Real Time Stream CrunchUp is Lazyfeed, and it is also opening up its service a bit this morning. We have exclusive invites for the first 300 TechCrunch readers to sign up at the site with the promo code “lazytc”.
Lazyfeed is an interest feed for blog items. It indexes about 100,000 of the most popular blogs and organizes posts by topic. The hottest topics, as determined by related tags, pop up to the top. On the home page it shows you the hottest topics of the moment, which offers an easy entry point into the service.
You can also do searches for particular tags, and the most recent posts with those tags start streaming into the reader. You can save tags as favorites in the side bar. and return to them. The service might include Twitter hashtags in the future, but right now it is focused on showing the most recent blog posts about a particular topic.
The service has promise, but needs to be developed further. For instance, I would like to see a unified stream of all my interest, just like I can see a unified stream of all the blogs I subscribe to in Google Reader. Currently, you have to click on each tag/interest to generate a feed of headlines. I’d like to all my interests in one column. There also needs to be a way to add and remove particular sources and to filter the results so that they become much more personalized. But all in all, it is a good start and a refreshing approach.
The company will be demoing its service later today at the CrunchUp, which will be live streamed here.
Thanks! I got a sign up
Got the invite. Thanks!
Thanks, I got the invite.
Reading ‘first 300 techcrunch readers…’ made me type/scroll/copypaste faster than ever before.
Now to see if lazyfeed is any good.
Just signed up. Seems pretty interesting.
Thank you Erick for the great rightup! Just to clarify, the sidebar is not just a favorites section, but it’s where the actual real-time action takes place. Whenever there’s a new content about certain topic, the topic springs up to the top, so that you don’t have to browse through the entire list to find out which topics are new. This is cooler when you actually see them move, so if you’re interested, tune into the Crunchup event!
Really cool stuff! Thanks a lot!
Got an invite!
And just like that that promo code has been used up.
Thanks I was able to access the site with the promo code and just checking it out now
Today is not my lucky day :/
How do we get an invite? Looks very cool. I’ll be watching CrunchUp!
Oh, you just use the promo code. I misspelled it the first time so I thought it was the wrong thing! Anyway, it’s pretty cool!
No more invite/promo codes?
Geez… code’s already expired.
I am in love with lazyfeed.
It doesnt have very many feeds yet, but what It does have, its delivering amazingly. =)