We’ve been seeing a lot of projects and startups trying to speed up RSS feeds. Today, a service is launching that addresses some of the issues with a different user-interface. Lazyfeed, the realtime interest feed reader that launched last month in private beta at our Real-Time Crunchup, is opening up publicly today for anyone who wants to sign up.
Instead of signing up for a long list of blogs and news feeds, all you have to do on Lazyfeed is type in a topic and Lazyfeed will show you the most recent posts and articles with that tag from the one million blogs that it now indexes. (This number is up from 100,000 blogs at launch). Headlines and excerpts containing that tag appear in the main window, and if you want to follow that topic, you can save the tag in a column on the left. As you save more tags, your interests appear as a list, which reorder themselves according to the latest posts.
So instead of a list of blogs, you have a list of interests, and Lazyfeed goes out and discovers content for you around those interests. For any given tag you put unto the search bar at the top, it also supplies you with related tags just underneath that you can click on to explore further. If you don’t like a particular blog, you can remove it from your results. Another new feature since the private beta launch is that you can now share any post on Twitter, Facebook, or email.
I like not having to worry about programming my feed reader (that’s the lazy part), but I also see that Lazyfeed is missing some key blogs right now (cough, TechCrunch). Founder Ethan Gahng says that is just because the site is going through a database re-organization which wasn’t completed in time for launch, and that should fix it itself soon. The other big question how fast the index picks up new posts. He doesn’t use Pubsubhubub, like Google Reader now does, but instead uses some internal technology to speed up crawling and indexing. But if Pubsubhubbub is faster, he should use that instead. In the realtime Web, speed is everything.
Well, why so many redundant websites ? Don’t they know about Google blog Search?
Hi Max, actually, Lazyfeed is designed to free you from the burden of searching. It’s too difficult to keep up with everything in your life. Lazyfeed allows you to save all your interested topics and forget about them, because it will let you know when there’s something new about those topics. Think of it as an instant messenger that delivers all the contents on your favorite topics :)
yes have been using http://wikio.com for that.
wow it looks great. i am sure i am gonna use the service and give a try. let’s see if it is much better than other feeds.
great news.
@clonevideos, Thanks. I hope you enjoy the service. Play with it, and please let us know what you think :)
I’ve been on the beta since the realtime crunchup and I’ve enjoyed it quite a bit.
Me too!
Thank you Alex, it means a lot to hear that you like it :)
Thank you Peter,
it’s great that you like it.
We have so much more on your way, so stay tuned!
this is cool!
@deeps, thank you. Please play with it and let us know what you think :)
any recommendations for rss feed aggregation tools? i still like to pick my own sources to follow.
Please try buzznews.com. You can pick up your own sources.
you can try http://www.pheed.me
Hmmm, not related, but I see a toolbar at the bottom of my browser only when i visit techcrunch now.
It’s a tool bar to make it easier to share web items on facebook and such.
I can also drag and share picture on any page.
So…how do i turn this off?
I’m just going to make a guess here, and suggest the massive “down” arrow to the far right. The one that says “Hide”.
They also desperately need to build support for saving feeds with multiple tags. It would be much more useful to a lot of people if you could tailor your feeds that way.
What? No way! Don’t they know that the company that wasn’t bought by Facebook and continues to be stricken by ridiculous downtime has killed RSS!
Fools!
OT: Does anyone know of a good full featured Friendfeed client?
Topics for Lazy George.
Topics for Lazy George is empty now.
Why are they calling me Lazy? This has completely turned me off.
Need to be able to get more specific. Maybe allow chaining of Tags?
I’m looking up web design, and maybe tutorials. My only options right now are to look under tag “webdesign” or “tutorial”. Both of which are way too broad.
Not sure that i need this. Guess not.
I do not want to create an account to test a service. I think this (letting a person test the service) could have been done without creating an account first, or atleast use OpenID so that I can use existing ID info.
I’ve been using lazyfeed since the beta and I really like it a lot. I’m an industrial designer so I always need to keep up with latest technolgy and trends. Also for ongoing projects, searching through the web has always been one of the most important part during the researching stage.
For me, Lazyfeed seems to be the best tool for researching purpose. I just type in tags such as technology, concept, greendesign, lighting … and it sends you what the latest trends are in the blogosphere. Instead of having to search for all the contents (most of which turns out to be spam), I just have to sit down to watch new blog post related to the topics pop up.
For the lates project for example, I typed in “Nike”, “Nikeplus”, “Shoes” and get latest updates what everyones lately buzzing about.
I just wish there’s some kind of tab to organize my topics better.
Too fast..damn it… I thinks is working too fast..anyway is working Great!!! Just a couple of things: not working with a web-site like ww.bbc.co.uk (I know that is work in progress) and the fact that you cannot check certain website instead of topic is a weak burt anyway the real time software, as I wrote it, works so good!!!
Looks good.
Check out http://www.techfeed.com for tech blogs.
Me likes! Google Reader is too busy for me and Bloglines beta seems headed to the deadpool. Is there a way to create folders to organize keywords with Lazyfeed? If I’m tracking 30 or so terms would be nice if I could organize them under general topics. But so far I like what I see!
Thank you Rob, we tried to make the service as simple as possible, but we do have lots of features to roll out soon, so please stay tuned!
Good concept – however, missing feature which is key for me and mentioned in other posts – I like to specifically choose the source, not just the interest.