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Re: What 5 blogs do you think are MUST read?

Edwin Khodabakchian — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:54:01 -0000

Hi Bobbi,
If you are an existing Google Reader user, could you please try to install feedly, go to the feedly dashboard and put a start next to the feeds you really like and think are must read and see if the feedly interface allows you to handle the volume? (feedly has the concept of favorite and non favorite feeds to help cut through some of the noise. That is at least the theory and I would be curious to see if it would work for you.
http://www.feedly.com
Thank you,
Edwin

Re: Feedly Beginning To Disappoint

Edwin Khodabakchian — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:53:13 -0000

Hi Keith. I know that you have been a feedly advocate since the early days and I am sorry for the frustration. Feedly is still early in its dev process and out goal over the last 6 months has been to try to improve it a little bit every week. Most of these changes were steps forward, some of them were a step backward.

Regarding the feedly patching mechanism, we published a detailed post about it here:
http://blog.feedly.com/2009/02/28/feedly-versio... It describes how it works and how it is evolving in version 2.0 and 2.5.

Regarding the product roadmap and the changes, everything is done openly and in constant discussion with the feedly users. You can see our roadmap here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=po646v7U... and you can see the active discussions we continuously have with our users here: http://getsatisfaction.com/feedly we try our best to respond to every user bug reports, questions in 12h/24h. We also actively monitor twitter and friendfeed and try to listen to users there as well. 80% of the changes we make to feedly over the last 6 months have been directly related one way or the other to feedback we received from users.

Your point about regressions is well taken. As the product matures and there is less need for use to iterate and change, we will be focusing on making sure that there are fewer regressions (if you read the patch/upgrade document we describe in more detail that this is the direction we are heading in 2.5.

Thank you for the help you provided us over the last 6 months and sorry we could not provide a stable enough experience but some of it is inherent to the open/iterative model we are using to build feedly and although ideally software should be perfect from the get go, my experience is that building good software starts with a process that is a little more messy than that. I hope that you will give us another chance in 3-6 months when we have matured to a more stable stage.

Edwin
feedly co-founder, @edwk

Re: Mis herramientas: cÃ³mo organizar y seguir el pulso a la actualizaciÃ³n de noticias e informaciÃ³n

Edwin Khodabakchian — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:10:13 -0000

Claudia: thank you very much for the reference to feedly. If you ever run into any issues and need technical support please let us know and we will be happy to try to help (twitter: @feedly).

Re: Bring Google Reader To Life with Feedly

Edwin Khodabakchian — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:57:19 -0000

Thank you very much for writing this review. We are still early in the dev cycle and look forward to people suggestions as to what needs to be polished and what needs to be changed.

One clarification: the focus of feedly is not to replace google reader, specially if you are a super heavy Google Reader user. Google Reader was designed around productivity and they excel in that area. feedly instead is trying to see if by compromising some of the productivity aspects for a more fun/magazine-like experience we can bring package and bring RSS and social sharing to a more mainstream audience. We are not there yet but this is our goal/focus (hence the start page position versus the RSS reader positioning).

Thanks again and please let me know if you have any additional questions.

Edwin (contributor to the feedly project)

Re: Feedly adds Google Search Integration [Firefox Only]

Edwin Khodabakchian — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:52:42 -0000

Hi Keith: thanks for the post and the video:

One quick note: feedly only integrates results if there is content matching the query published in the last 7 days by either one of your favorite sources or recommended by the people you follow or your friend of friends. These constraints reduce the probability of the overlay to happen but when it does the result should be better.

It also means that people who have subscribe to more sources and follow more people have a higher chance to see the results (trying to find ways to reward people who invest time in following and sharing).

As mentioned on he blog this is one of tree experiments we are doing around search "mash-ups" and we look forward to listening to what people think and how it could be evolved to add more value.

Thank you!
Edwin

Re: My 5 Favorite Twitter Apps

Edwin Khodabakchian — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:27:23 -0000

Have you had the chance to try Twazzup? It is a better alternative to twitter search. Very cool. http://www.twazzup.com

Re: My Favorite Firefox Add-ons

Edwin Khodabakchian — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:34:10 -0000

Great list of firefox add-ons! Have you had the chance to play with cooliris and feedly?

Re: Feedly

Edwin Khodabakchian — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:31:37 -0000

(Thank you very much for the feedly review and the kind words!)

Re: What to do when you can’t be RSSed…

Edwin Khodabakchian — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:17:11 -0000

Hi Darren,

The top part of the screenshot is called the feedly cover: it contains a list of articles from the source you subscribe to in Google Reader. The list if filtered in 3 ways: what you mark explicitly as favorite and people you follow recommend and what is generally recommended by the feedly community.

The bottom part is what feedly calls the wall: it is a more raw, time based list of all the articles you and the people you follow recommend.

Do you follow anyone? (note: follow in feedly == subscribe to the recommendation feed of that someone in Google Reader).

Happy to try to address any other questions you might have regarding feedly.

Re: Kara Visits Slide's Max Levchin, Part 1

Edwin Khodabakchian — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:41:30 -0000

Kara. I love your blog and videos! For some reason the videos are not visible in Google Reader. Might be an issue on the Google side but I thought that with your cloud, you might be able to fix it. Thank you. Edwin

Re: Kara Visits Dailymotion in Paris

Edwin Khodabakchian — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:56:58 -0000

Great interview! Thanks.