We’re excited to launch a new version of the Feedly Web UI that improves the navigation and adds support for a cool dark theme.
Here’s a quick demo of the new Feedly dark theme and left navigation bar updates:
More visible Add Content (+)
The profile and add content are now more visible in a left band. Team users will also be able to more easily add new teammates and share feeds and boards.
The new left band
Pin or unpin
You can continue to pin or unpin the navigation bar
Unpinned
Right-click Menus
You can right click on a feed, a source, a board, or a priority and use the contextual menu to quickly manage your resources.
Right-click on any object
Easily rename inline
Renaming your feeds, sources, boards, and priorities is a lot easier.
Rename inline
Drag and sort
Drag and drop and easily re-order your categories.
Drag and sort sections
This impacts both the order in the left navigation and the order of the sections in the Today page.
A Cool New Dark Theme
The day/night icon on the left band makes it easy to switch from the default white theme to the new cool dark theme.
Thank you!
We would like to thank Gregoire Vella for leading the design of these two projects. We are very excited to have Gregoire as part of the design team. He has a really sharp eye and he is a pleasure to work with.
We would also like to thank the Feedly Lab community and Twitter community for all the bugs and suggestions reported during the beta.
We are continuously shifting to a more open and collaborative process. If you are actively using Feedly and want to share ideas or frustrations, please join the Feedly Lab Community on Slack or Twitter.
The team is exploring a new design for the Feedly navigation bar. Here is a quick tour so that you can let us know what you think of the upcoming changes!
More visible + / Add Content
The profile and add content are now more visible in a left band. Teams users will also be able to more easily add new teammates and share feeds and boards.
The new left band
Pin or unpin
You can continue to pin or unpin the navigation bar
Unpinned
Right-click and manipulate anything
You can right click on a feed, a source, a board, or a priority and use the contextual menu to quickly manage your resources.
Right-click on any oject
Easily rename inline
Renaming your feeds, sources, or boards is going to become a lot easier.
Rename inline
Drag and drop
Drag and drop and easily re-order or re-organize anything, including easily moving personal feeds and boards to your team space.
Train Leo to prioritize the most critical vulnerabilities in your cybersecurity feeds
Do you need to keep up with the latest vulnerabilities and threats but do not have the time to read all your security feeds? We can help.
In 2018, fifteen thousand vulnerabilities were discovered, the number of exploits doubled and more than four security articles were published every minute. Keeping up with all these trends can be time-consuming and overwhelming.
This is a problem we are very passionate about and have been researching with two of the largest security teams in Silicon Valley.
Today, we are excited to announce a new Leo skill called Security Threats.
We have been teaching Leo to read security articles and find or assess the severity of the software vulnerabilities they mention so that he can help you focus your attention on the most critical threats in your feeds first.
Let’s look at how you can train your Leo to prioritize articles mentioning critical vulnerabilities related to Microsoft, WordPress, or Docker.
Cut through the noise
Leo reads and prioritizes the most critical threats in your feeds
Leo continuously reads your feeds and short-lists the most critical vulnerabilities in the priority tab.
For example, you might have a cybersecurity feed connected to niche security experts, vulnerability databases, keyword alerts, etc. with thousands of new articles per month.
You can train Leo to read those 1,000+ articles and prioritize the 30 or so referencing high severity threats (CVSS > 8) and related to vendors you care about (Microsoft, WordPress, Docker in the example above).
Leo’s new Security Threat skill
You’re in control
Leo is not an opaque recommendation engine. Instead, Leo has a set of skills that gives you control over defining what information is important to you.
The new Security Threat skill allows Leo to read an article, lookup CVE, CVSS, and exploit information from multiple open source databases and determine how critical a vulnerability is.
The new Security Threat skill also includes a sophisticated machine learning model that allows Leo to assess the severity of a threat based on the vocabulary used to describe the software vulnerability. This is particularly useful for zero-day vulnerabilities which might not have a CVE or CVSS.
Training Leo to prioritize vulnerabilities is very simple.
Creating a Leo cybersecurity model
The first layer of the model captures the severity threshold. High means CVSS > 8 or CVSS > 5 but with an exploit.
The second layer of the model captures the list of vendors.
Control and transparency are core Leo design principles.
All the articles prioritized by Leo have a green priority marker. Clicking on that marker offers an explanation of why the article was prioritized and the opportunity to refine, pause or remove that priority.
Full control and transparency
When an article is related to a CVE, you can also click on that CVE to get additional information about the vulnerability: description, CVSS score, exploits, patches, etc.
Quick access to CVE information
Continuously learning and getting smarter
Leo learns from his mistakes. When a recommendation is wrong, you can use the “Less-Like-This” down arrow button to correct Leo.
Leo learns from Less Like This feedback
You can let Leo know that he misclassified a vulnerability, miscalculated the severity, or misidentified a vendor.
Leo learns from your feedback and gets continuously smarter.
Streamline your open-source intelligence
We are excited to see many security teams declutter their feeds and dig deeper into the vulnerabilities that matter to them. Sign up today and discover what Feedly for Cybersecurity can do for you!
If you are interested in learning more about Leo’s roadmap, you can join the Feedly Community Slack. 2020 will be a thrilling year with new skills and bold experiments!
Over the last twelve months, we interacted with hundreds of cybersecurity teams. One of the common murmurs we are hearing is that it is increasingly harder to keep up with trends and threads in the security space.
In 2018, fifteen thousand vulnerabilities were discovered and the number of exploits doubled – resulting in about four new security articles getting published every second on the Web.
This is a problem we are very passionate about so we are excited to announce a new Leo Security Skill that allows you to prioritize within your feeds the articles that reference the most critical vulnerabilities.
It is a powerful way of focusing your attention on the 10% of vulnerabilities that matter the most – taking into consideration the CVSS score, the content of the article, the level of awareness of the CVE and the products/vectors your care about.
For example, here is a quick tour of how you can train Leo to prioritize the high severity threats related to Microsoft products.
Discover the Best Cybersecurity Sources
The first step, if you do not follow vulnerability sources yet, is to click on Add Content and search for #security or #vulnerability. You will see a list of about one thousand security publications, blogs, and subject matter experts you can easily add to your Feedly. Create a Vulnerabilities feed and add ten to fifteen sources.
Access to 1,000 sources across 25 security topics
Because Feedly is an open platform, you can add any source you want to follow that publishes an RSS feed.
Train Your Leo
The second step is to train Leo to prioritize the most critical vulnerabilities in your feed. Most security teams care about the top 10% of the vulnerabilities that have a CVSS score greater than 8 and/or have an exploit.
The Leo Security Skill allows him to either lookup or predict the CVSS score of a vulnerability mentioned in an article. So when a new article is published in your feed, Leo will first try to lookup the CVSS and exploit information from the Web. If there is no CVE or CVSS, it will try to predict the severity of the vulnerability based on the content and terminology used in the article.
Training Leo to prioritize high severity vulnerabilities around products . you care about is simple.
The new Leo Security Threat skill
In the priority modeler, add a first layer of type Security Threat and select the High threshold.
Prioritize high severity threat related to Microsoft via a 2-layer model
Then add a second Topic layer and pick the list of products you would like Leo to track. Leo will combine both layers and look for high severity vulnerabilities mentioning the products you care about.
Read, Share, and Shine
Leo will continuously read your Vulnerabilities feed and when an article matches the high severity and mentions the products you care about, Leo will annotate that article and move it to your priority queue.
Prioritized security feed
When you open your Vulnerabilities feed, you will first see the shortlist of articles Leo has prioritized. If Leo has found the CVSS information for the mentioned vulnerability, you will see it as part of the metadata of the article.
Prioritized article have a green marker with the name of the priority. If you click on that marker, you will be presented with a short explanation of why Leo prioritized this articles and the controls for you to refine Leo’s training.
This aspect around control and transparency is really important to us. It is what we call collaborative intelligence.
Save to board to share via a newsletter, Slack or Microsoft Teams
If you see an article or vulnerability that is particularly important, you can save that article into a Feedly board and configure that board to push the content to an email newsletter, a Slack channel or a Microsoft Teams channel. Boards are a powerful way to keep important articles for reference and easily share with your teammates.
Continuously Learning and Getting Smarter
One of the powers of Leo is that he is constantly collaborating with you and learning from you. If you see an article that is highly relevant, you can save it to a board and then use the content of that board to re-enforce Leo’s learning via a Like-board skill.
The Leo Less Like This feedback loop
If Leo was wrong about detecting a vulnerability, assigning a severity to it, or detected a product you are interested in, you can at any point of time click on the down arrow icon (also called Less Like This icon) and provide feedback to Leo.
That feedback is process daily and used to continuously improve the various machine learning models used to power Leo.
Join the Leo Beta
The Leo cybersecurity skill was created over the last 12 months in close collaboration with two of the largest and most advanced security teams in Silicon Valley.
We are excited to hear what the Leo beta community thinks about this new skill! If you are part of the security team and would like to test drive Leo Cyber Security, please join the beta program.
Pro and Team users rely on notes and highlights to enrich the articles they read with valuable insights and make sure that teammates can quickly zoom into what is interesting and important.
This morning, we pushed an update that allows you to search for notes and highlights.
Searching in notes and highlights
If you select Annotated in the power search section picker, the search engine will look for the search term in notes or highlights you have added to the document.
This is a simple way to quickly find a specific article or a list of articles you have “tagged” for specific research you are working on.
The integration between annotations and power search is available both on the Web and on version 63 of Feedly Mobile.
Pro and Team users rely on notes and highlights to enrich the articles they read with valuable insights and make sure that teammates can quickly zoom into what is interesting and important.
This morning, we pushed an update that allows you to search for notes and highlights.
Searching in notes and highlights
If you select Annotated in the power search section picker, the search engine will look for the search term in notes or highlights you have added to the document.
This is a simple way to quickly find a specific article or a list of articles you have “tagged” for specific research you are working on.
The integration between annotations and power search is available both on the Web and on version 63 of Feedly Mobile.
One million Feedly users rely on Feedly Mini to quickly add new sources to their feeds and save essential articles to their boards.
Saving insightful articles to your boards allows you to share and shine with your team and train Leo. The more articles you save to a board, the greater the accuracy of Leo’s like board priorities.
We are excited to announce a new version of the Feedly Mini Chrome browser extension that makes following sources and saving articles even easier.
Saving an article to one of your Feedly Boards
One of the popular feature requests for Feedly Mini was the ability to add a note to the article being saved to a board.
Quickly annotate and save web pages to one of your Feedly boards
In version 5, if you have access to the annotation features, you will be able to add a note to the article you are saving to your boards.
If you are part of Feedly Teams and have connected Feedly Teams with Slack, you will be able to mention a teammate or a Slack channel directly in Feedly mini and quickly notify your teammates.
Following a new source
We are also bringing the power of our new discovery experience to Feedly Mini v5.
Quickly follow a new source
Let’s imagine that you are browsing the Web and you discovered a new source you want to follow in Feedly.
When you click on the Feedly Mini icon, Feedly Mini will automatically discover the RSS feed for the page you are reading and show you a popup with information about that source.
You can click on Follow in Feedly to preview the RSS in Feedly and add it to one of your feeds.
You can also click on Explore to tap into the collective wisdom of the Feedly community and determine what are the sources that user often co-read with the source you are looking at.
No more having to look at the source page to find an RSS URL and manually searching for that URL to be able to add it to one of your feeds.
This is the first step for us to bring some of the work we are doing with Leo and discovery to Feedly Mini. Let us know what you think by joining the Feedly Lab Slack community and expect to see more in the next three to six months as Leo matures
One million Feedly users rely on Feedly Mini to quickly add new sources to their feeds and save essential articles to their boards.
Saving insightful articles to your boards allows you to share and shine with your team and train Leo. The more articles you save to a board, the greater the accuracy of Leo’s like board priorities.
We are excited to announce a new version of the Feedly Mini Chrome browser extension that makes following sources and saving articles even easier.
Saving an article to one of your Feedly Boards
One of the popular feature requests for Feedly Mini was the ability to add a note to the article being saved to a board.
Quickly annotate and save web pages to one of your Feedly boards
In version 5, if you have access to the annotation features, you will be able to add a note to the article you are saving to your boards.
If you are part of Feedly Teams and have connected Feedly Teams with Slack, you will be able to mention a teammate or a Slack channel directly in Feedly mini and quickly notify your teammates.
Following a new source
We are also bringing the power of our new discovery experience to Feedly Mini v5.
Quickly follow a new source
Let’s imagine that you are browsing the Web and you discovered a new source you want to follow in Feedly.
When you click on the Feedly Mini icon, Feedly Mini will automatically discover the RSS feed for the page you are reading and show you a popup with information about that source.
You can click on Follow in Feedly to preview the RSS in Feedly and add it to one of your feeds.
You can also click on Explore to tap into the collective wisdom of the Feedly community and determine what are the sources that user often co-read with the source you are looking at.
No more having to look at the source page to find an RSS URL and manually searching for that URL to be able to add it to one of your feeds.
This is the first step for us to bring some of the work we are doing with Leo and discovery to Feedly Mini. Let us know what you think by joining the Feedly Lab Slack community and expect to see more in the next three to six months as Leo matures
We pushed Leo 0.5 to a limited beta in early March and collected lots of interesting feedback. The team is listening and crunching through all that feedback and adapting Leo to improve UI/UX as well as the relevance of the underlying machine learning models.
Here is a summary of the changes we are pushing out today as part of Leo 0.6 Beta
Smart Topics
One of the feedback we collected was that the difference between mentions and topics was not clear. So in 0.6, we merged these two concepts into a single one we call Smart Topics. Just search what you want to prioritize and Leo will start analyzing the content of your feeds and prioritize the articles which are a match.
Search for companies, products, people and topics in a unified experience
Level of Aboutness
Sometimes you are interested in a company, product, or topic and you want to see every article mentioning that topic. Sometimes, for more popular topics, you are only interested in reading an article if the article is truly about that topic or company.
Leo 0.6 exposes a “level of aboutness” knob that gives you more control over the model so that you can cut out low salience matches.
Tune the aboutness parameter of each layer
For example, if you are interested in NLP or BERT, you can train Leo to only prioritize research articles that are prominently about those topics (as opposed to articles which only briefly touch on those topics).
This is a particularly powerful feature when combined with Google News Keyword alerts.
Global Priorities
Some Leo 0.5 beta customers mentioned that it was critical for them to be able to define priorities that span across multiple feeds. For example, you might be doing research about Stablecoin and want to prioritize that topic across both your Tech feed, your Business feed, or all your personal or team feeds.
In Leo 0.6, the priority designer allows you to pick “All Team Feeds” or “All Personal Feeds” as the scope of the priority.
Create a priority that spans across all your team feeds
This change reduces the total number of priorities you need to create and manage when researching topic and trends across multiple of your feeds.
Quick Access
Some users mentioned that they would like to be able to navigate their content by priority. If you are interested in a specific topic like Docker, it makes sense to be able to quickly see if there are new Docker related articles in your Feedly and easily access those articles.
In Leo 0.6, we added a new Priorities section to the left navigation bar that surfaces all your priorities and gives you quick access to all the article Leo has flagged as important.
Quick Access to all the NLP article prioritized by Leo
We added two settings in the Leo settings to let you personalize this feature. You can decide if you want to see priorities in your left navigation. If you want to see all the priorities or all the global ones (default). If you want to see all the priorities or only the ones which hav unread articles.
Inlined Entities
Your interests and priorities are continuously evolving. Often, you discover a new company, product, or topic while reading an article and you want to be able to teach Leo about it.
In Leo 0.6, the most prominent topics mentioned in an article are highlighted so that you can quickly prioritize them (or mute them)
Inlined Entities allow for quick prioritization of new topics
As part of Leo’s Cyber Security skill, you will also see highlights of CVE entities. More to come soon.
Like for the Quick Access feature, there is a Leo setting that allow you to turn off Inlined Entities if that is your preference.
Like Board Improvements
The ML team is spending time understanding how you are engaging with your priority feeds (which articles are saved to a board, which articles are being Less Like This’ed) and tuning the underlying ML models to improve accuracy. You should expect to see the quality of your priority feeds improve over the next 8 weeks.
Power Search
A lot of Feedly Pro and Feedly Teams customer rely on power search to find specific articles in their feeds and boards. In Leo 0.6, we are expanding power search and let you search with your priority feeds.
Search for BERT within the NLP priority
For teams using Leo to discover and track trends, opportunities, and trends across industries, the combination of Leo priorities and Power search is a powerful way to quick find the most crucial information
Thank you!
We want to thank all the beta customers who have been working very closely with us over the last few weeks (and sometimes months). We are very grateful for your time and precious feedback. This open collaboration is not only powerful and efficient but it is also very fun. We look forward to the next 3 months!
We pushed Leo 0.5 to a limited beta in early March and collected lots of interesting feedback. The team is listening and crunching through all that feedback and adapting Leo to improve UI/UX as well as the relevance of the underlying machine learning models.
Here is a summary of the changes we are pushing out today as part of Leo 0.6 Beta
Smart Topics
One of the feedback we collected was that the difference between mentions and topics was not clear. So in 0.6, we merged these two concepts into a single one we call Smart Topics. Just search what you want to prioritize and Leo will start analyzing the content of your feeds and prioritize the articles which are a match.
Search for companies, products, people and topics in a unified experience
Level of Aboutness
Sometimes you are interested in a company, product, or topic and you want to see every article mentioning that topic. Sometimes, for more popular topics, you are only interested in reading an article if the article is truly about that topic or company.
Leo 0.6 exposes a “level of aboutness” knob that gives you more control over the model so that you can cut out low salience matches.
Tune the aboutness parameter of each layer
For example, if you are interested in NLP or BERT, you can train Leo to only prioritize research articles that are prominently about those topics (as opposed to articles which only briefly touch on those topics).
This is a particularly powerful feature when combined with Google News Keyword alerts.
Global Priorities
Some Leo 0.5 beta customers mentioned that it was critical for them to be able to define priorities that span across multiple feeds. For example, you might be doing research about Stablecoin and want to prioritize that topic across both your Tech feed, your Business feed, or all your personal or team feeds.
In Leo 0.6, the priority designer allows you to pick “All Team Feeds” or “All Personal Feeds” as the scope of the priority.
Create a priority that spans across all your team feeds
This change reduces the total number of priorities you need to create and manage when researching topic and trends across multiple of your feeds.
Quick Access
Some users mentioned that they would like to be able to navigate their content by priority. If you are interested in a specific topic like Docker, it makes sense to be able to quickly see if there are new Docker related articles in your Feedly and easily access those articles.
In Leo 0.6, we added a new Priorities section to the left navigation bar that surfaces all your priorities and gives you quick access to all the article Leo has flagged as important.
Quick Access to all the NLP article prioritized by Leo
We added two settings in the Leo settings to let you personalize this feature. You can decide if you want to see priorities in your left navigation. If you want to see all the priorities or all the global ones (default). If you want to see all the priorities or only the ones which hav unread articles.
Inlined Entities
Your interests and priorities are continuously evolving. Often, you discover a new company, product, or topic while reading an article and you want to be able to teach Leo about it.
In Leo 0.6, the most prominent topics mentioned in an article are highlighted so that you can quickly prioritize them (or mute them)
Inlined Entities allow for quick prioritization of new topics
As part of Leo’s Cyber Security skill, you will also see highlights of CVE entities. More to come soon.
Like for the Quick Access feature, there is a Leo setting that allow you to turn off Inlined Entities if that is your preference.
Like Board Improvements
The ML team is spending time understanding how you are engaging with your priority feeds (which articles are saved to a board, which articles are being Less Like This’ed) and tuning the underlying ML models to improve accuracy. You should expect to see the quality of your priority feeds improve over the next 8 weeks.
Power Search
A lot of Feedly Pro and Feedly Teams customer rely on power search to find specific articles in their feeds and boards. In Leo 0.6, we are expanding power search and let you search with your priority feeds.
Search for BERT within the NLP priority
For teams using Leo to discover and track trends, opportunities, and trends across industries, the combination of Leo priorities and Power search is a powerful way to quick find the most crucial information
Thank you!
We want to thank all the beta customers who have been working very closely with us over the last few weeks (and sometimes months). We are very grateful for your time and precious feedback. This open collaboration is not only powerful and efficient but it is also very fun. We look forward to the next 3 months!
