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Rob Sellen · 8 months ago

Interesting... never heard of that till now, and ya kept us waiting on friendfeed! :o)

So would you use this instead of Greader?

Or as purely a customsing RSS?

It would be very handy purely for researching.

Rob

Dave Stanley · 8 months ago

Rob, definitely not a substitute. Once you create some filters you can pull the results into greader. It should be looked at as complimentary.

Louis Gray · 8 months ago

Rob, you would use the customized feeds as new feeds in Google Reader. This way, you could replace my standard feed with the Apple-free version, or even a Louis Gray free version (I dare you.) These feeds are like any other.

Rob Sellen · 8 months ago

Dave, Louis,

Thanks for that, makes sense now, I can see the power of that in a variety of uses, researching things would be very handy, set it up, leave it a week or so, pull it all up and read, note. :o)

Good stuff, like you said Dave, a compliment to your reader. :o)

Thanks. Rob

MarinaMartin · 8 months ago

Exciting to see this tool! I already do this with Yahoo Pipes, but many of my clients are intimidated by Pipes's decidedly technical appearance. Shyftr looks like a friendlier option.

If you're running WordPress, each tag and category already has its own RSS feed, so you could tag posts with the author's name and offer options that way.

Matt Shaulis · 8 months ago

This is a great point about Wordpress that I fear not enough people take advantage of, however this limits you to one author, one tag, on one blog. With the Shyftr Publisher someone is free to mash up the feeds of more than one of their blogs and create unique and interesting filters including multiple authors and/or topics of interest (or disinterest if that's the case) without relying on formal taxonomy of posts. For too long RSS feeds offered by publishers have been limited, not by the imaginations bloggers, but by the technology available to them. Along with a brilliant community of talented publishers we are hoping to help change that. :)

MarinaMartin · 8 months ago

You can customize a WordPress RSS feed by author and keyword, too... either subtracting certain ones or including certain ones. Of course, not with Feedburner active ;)

Totally see the value in what you're offering, just want to point out that if you have WordPress (and are not running Feedburner), you can already do this.

JamesFuller · 8 months ago

Interesting, I haven't seen the Shyftr name in a few months. Glad to see this tool come out, it will give me something to test my work against for the next week or so. Thanks for the info and could I get an invite if at all possible, Louis. Thanks.

Louis Gray · 8 months ago

James, I sent an invite via the Contact Us portion of your blog.

JamesFuller · 8 months ago

Thank you.

Kent Newsome · 8 months ago

I'd be interested in talking a look if you have a spare invite. Thanks

Louis Gray · 8 months ago

Kent, an invite to Shyftr has been sent to your e-mail.

drewolanoff · 8 months ago

Oh this is nice.

guruvan (Rob Nelson) · 8 months ago

this is way slick. I'm not much of an RSS reader, but this will Way increase my usage. I really appreciated the filter examples in the post. thanks!

Graham English · 8 months ago

I was just thinking that I want something like this built into Google Reader. So tired of seeing Limbaugh and Beck's name always coming up.

Shawn K · 8 months ago

I've been a big fan of Shyftr for a long time, and I'm sad to be losing their feed reader. But these guys make some great stuff, have excellent interaction with their users, and aren't afraid to switch gears when they see a better development path. They've got some stuff in the pipeline with lots of potential, and it could get lots of mainstream users.

Don't let yourself forget about Shyftr, it has a bright future.

RobinGood · 8 months ago

Thanks Louis, Shyftr seems to provide further help and support also to the little-mentioned yet emerging small army of human filters, as I call them newsmasters, dedicated to the very task of grazing, picking and sharing most relevant news on very specific topic themes.

I'd be happy to find out more about Shyftr and would appreciate an invite.
(you can send it to Robin . Good [at] masternewmedia . org)
Thanks a lot, and keep up this great work you are doing.

Dave Stanley · 8 months ago

Hi Robin, thanks. To create filters and pull the results into your RSS reader you don't need an account. You can get going right away here http://alpha.shyftr.com/filter/popular/. If you are a publisher and want to offer the filter on your site, to your readers, you can request an invite for a publisher account here: http://alpha.shyftr.com/publisher

RobinGood · 8 months ago

Thanks Louis, much appreciated.

I am a publisher, and I understood you were sharing some of these invites to
those requesting it to access
http://alpha.shyftr.com/publisher

...am I missing something? :-)

Dave Stanley · 8 months ago

You're correct. If you submit a request from that page I'll get it squared away.

Larry Hudson · 8 months ago

This looks really cool! I'd love an invite if you could please spare one ;-)

The email is me@larryhudson.org, by the way.

dreig · 8 months ago

Louis:
This seems a great resource about personalization, the next big thing. I´d like to write about it on my blog. Would you invite me to try it?
My email: dreig01@gmail.com

Thanks!

Kol Tregaskes · 8 months ago

Louis, I'd definitely be interested in an invite if I'm not too late? Do you know if it can handle duplicates? The one thing that annoys me with Google Reader is that it doesn't have the ability to filter out duplicates in folders. Would Shyftr help? Email: kolint at gmail dot com.

marcel weiss · 8 months ago

I'd like an invite as well. thx!

aureliusmaximus · 8 months ago

very very cool - great stuff as always Louis!

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