This post has been submitted by Sharon Hurley Hall from Get Paid To Write Online.com.

Keeping up with your feed reader can be quite a chore, especially if you have hundreds of feeds. Lazyfeed aims to make that process easier. This web application is intended to help you find stuff that really interests you.

Setting Up Lazyfeed

To get started, add some of your social media and networking information, such as your Delicious bookmarks, Twitter account and blog. Lazyfeed polls those to extract tags on the stuff that interests you. It also pulls in other topics relevant to those tags. All results update in real time, making it a great way to find topical content. As Louis Gray pointed out in his review, Lazyfeed blows Technorati out of the water. It also has a constantly updated hot topics list on the home page - just click on a link to see what’s being said.

Topics For The Lazy Me

I tested Lazyfeed by adding my Twitter account, three blogs I write for and one blog that I’m interested in. I got a list of ‘topics for the lazy me’ based on what the blogs had covered recently. I discovered on subsequent visits that this list updates, giving you the chance to add new topics to your main tag list. This is located at the top left of your home page. This section is quite addictive, and I find myself adding new topics to watch whenever I return to Lazyfeed. Another way to enter topics is to search for terms in the ‘what interests you?’ search box and add them to your personal Lazyfeed.

Your Lazyfeed

Once setup is complete, check out the latest on the topics that interest you by clicking on the tag title. The main content window will show a list of the latest posts on this topic, and will also provide a list of related topics that you can add to your feed. Click on a link to view it without leaving Lazyfeed (if the blog provides full feeds) and to have the chance to save it and watch it for live updates.

A Discovery Engine

After you look at a stream, it remains greyed out until there is something new, though you can always click on a link to see old posts on that theme. This is a great way to keep up with multiple topics quickly. My one niggle is that one of the hashtags I was monitoring didn’t seem up to date. Apart from that, Lazyfeed works well as way of quickly discovering new blog content. It’s still in beta, so you’ll need an invite to try it, but it’s certainly worth it.

Sharon Hurley Hall
Get Paid To Write Online.com

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