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Lazy Feed Preview

// August 18th, 2009 // View Comments // Internet, Social Media

Lazy Feed is a new web app still in  ”invite-only beta” that basically aggregates feeds and stories based on trending keywords and topics that you add yourself. I was lucky enough to score an invite code from Louis Gray in a friendfeed conversation. Not sure what topics to add?  Don’t worry the site can connect to some of your social sites to grab your most popular keywords and tags as a base. They currently support 4 social sites: twitter, flickr, delicious, and blogs. Once all of your topics are imported from these sites, you can manually add your own topics as well.

The wow factor with Lazyfeed is the real-time aspect of the site. Once you have added all of your favorite keywords, you will see the topics move up and down the page depending on which topic is receiving updates. Once you select a topic from the left hand column, you can view the results in the middle, browsing column. The newest content will always be at the top. The content will be summaries of each story and you can click on each to get an expanded view. You can even click the Save button to save the article for later viewing.

This service seems to take its cues from sites like google reader but it also tries to set itself apart by being based on topics rather than individual RSS feeds. The site is still in beta with more features in the works, I’m sure. I like the simplicity of the site and how the newest content gets pushed to the top. The real-time updates can be paused if you rather take your time when reading the stories. I would like to see options to share the content with other services. Right now its more of a closed system.

Below is a video which shows a demo of the site’s features:

If you’re interested in trying out the service let me know and I have 2 invite codes to the site. Fare warning about these codes, they are not guaranteed to work. I took them from a public spreadsheet so no guarantees.

Won a Free DVD!

// January 28th, 2009 // View Comments // Blog

No its not the DVD in the picture. On twitter @iheartmovies posted a contest for a copy of “The Lucky Ones” yet to be released DVD.  All you had to do was post picture of yourself hugging/kissing/whatevering your favorite move and add it to their flickr group. I scoped out the competition and thought I can one up this, so I dusted off my DVD collection, found one of my favorites and I was ready to go.

I need to say that I didn’t win the contest but I was runner-up and still won a DVD of Hulk Vs.Thor. Contest results page.

Sixth Photo Meme

// December 5th, 2008 // View Comments // Blog, Internet

Ok this wasn’t a total original idea but it is a cool one. Saw this post on Veronica Belmont’s blog and had to give it a shot. The rules of the Sixth Photo Meme are these:

“It works like this: if you use Flickr, go to the sixth page of your photostream and pick the sixth picture there, then post it to your blog.”

My Sixth Photo is one of my wife, Sarah outside of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth,TX. I know its not obscure and jarring like Veronica’s Shrunken Heads but its a good one.

Now for the second part of the meme. I get to tag 6 lucky friends to carry on the meme on their blogs! This was actually harder than it looks. It took me a while to find 6 friends who have a blog and use flickr. Tough crowd. So…. John Bandy, Tamara Farley, Kathleen Ratliff, Marc Weintraub, Mike Hedge, and Ben Dyer its all up to you to pass the torch!

Flickr now does Videos 90 Seconds at a time

// April 9th, 2008 // View Comments // News, Video

Flickr has long been supreme (in my opinion) when it comes to hosting photos on the net to share with friends. Now it seems they want to be great at videos as well. There is only one catch, you can only upload 90 seconds worth of video and only 150MB file size. You must also be a Pro member to use this feature so everyone with free accounts, you are out of luck. (more…)