A short time ago, we reviewed Lazyfeed, a way to easily keep up with the latest on topics that interest you. Now there’s another entrant into this marketplace. It’s called Guzzle.it.

Getting Started

You don’t even have to sign up to start using Guzzle.it. The non-personalized home page features three columns: popular, headlines and images, shown in red, but you can add your own (shown in blue) till you get the news you want.

To add a topic, type a term into the prominent search box. Hit enter and it will move to the list in the middle column. Keep doing this till you are tracking all the topics that interest you, then move to the middle column to arrange your topics. You can even separate these into different sections by adding horizontal separators, which you can rename.

Display Options

The third column at the top of the page gives some display options. You can choose whether to display the title of the item alone, or its source too and if you want a topic navigation bar at the top of the page. It’s a good idea to enable this if you are following several topics. Click the ‘I’m done’ button and view your page.

Each topic has a list of eight recent items, but if that’s not enough, click on the little gear to expand the view and you can see many more. Hover over an item to see a short excerpt, or click on it to be taken to the original source. You can also choose to have an image view for a particular topic, though I didn’t find this very useful.

Niggles

This site works very well for popular topics. If you want to find out what’s happening on social media sites, then it’s right up to date. However, for hashtag searches and less obvious topics, Guzzle.it is not yet as good as Lazyfeed. It also doesn’t auto refresh and the update sources seem limited. It’s still early days, though, so Guzzle.it is one to watch. At the moment, though, Lazyfeed is a better option for me.

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