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Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/04/shyftr-introduces-extremely-versatile.html

MarinaMartin — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 04:58:37 -0000

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.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/04/shyftr-introduces-extremely-versatile.html

aureliusmaximus — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:10:35 -0000

very very cool - great stuff as always Louis!

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/04/shyftr-introduces-extremely-versatile.html

Marcel Weiss — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:28:08 -0000

I'd like an invite as well. thx!

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/04/shyftr-introduces-extremely-versatile.html

Dave Stanley — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:16:26 -0000

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

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/04/shyftr-introduces-extremely-versatile.html

RobinGood — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:05:21 -0000

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/pub...

...am I missing something? :-)

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/04/shyftr-introduces-extremely-versatile.html

Dave Stanley — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:00:45 -0000

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/fil.... 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/pub...

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/04/shyftr-introduces-extremely-versatile.html

Kol Tregaskes — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 04:56:45 -0000

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.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/04/shyftr-introduces-extremely-versatile.html

dreig — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 04:19:52 -0000

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!

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/04/shyftr-introduces-extremely-versatile.html

RobinGood — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:45:06 -0000

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.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/04/shyftr-introduces-extremely-versatile.html

Guest — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 02:24:17 -0000

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

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

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/04/shyftr-introduces-extremely-versatile.html

Shawn K — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 01:42:54 -0000

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.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/04/shyftr-introduces-extremely-versatile.html

Rob — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 01:37:44 -0000

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

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/04/shyftr-introduces-extremely-versatile.html

Matt Shaulis — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 01:20:27 -0000

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. :)

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/04/shyftr-introduces-extremely-versatile.html

Graham English — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:52:31 -0000

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.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/04/shyftr-introduces-extremely-versatile.html

James Fuller — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:48:31 -0000

Thank you.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/04/shyftr-introduces-extremely-versatile.html

Louis Gray — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:46:20 -0000

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.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/04/shyftr-introduces-extremely-versatile.html

Louis Gray — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:44:54 -0000

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

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/04/shyftr-introduces-extremely-versatile.html

Louis Gray — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:44:24 -0000

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

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/04/shyftr-introduces-extremely-versatile.html

guruvan (Rob Nelson) — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:43:00 -0000

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!

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drew olanoff — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:42:16 -0000

Oh this is nice.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/04/shyftr-introduces-extremely-versatile.html

Kent Newsome — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:41:01 -0000

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

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/04/shyftr-introduces-extremely-versatile.html

Dave Stanley — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:40:48 -0000

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

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/04/shyftr-introduces-extremely-versatile.html

James Fuller — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:39:01 -0000

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.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/04/shyftr-introduces-extremely-versatile.html

MarinaMartin — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:27:24 -0000

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.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/04/shyftr-introduces-extremely-versatile.html

Rob — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:24:38 -0000

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