We are working on making the sharing options more comprehensive and more personalizable in feedly iOS and Android v 14.
Besides Evernote and Pinterest, are there other sharing options which are important to you?
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Feedly for Chrome 14.0.466 is out
We just pushed out a new version of feedly for chrome. It impacts both the feedly and the feedly plus flavors.
Here is a quick overview of the change log:
Change #1: We fixed a series of session related bugs. As a result, you should start seeing fewer offline messages.
Change #2: We renamed Today. The new name is Highlights. This is to re-enforce that that section is a subset of the articles published on your feedly. The content has not changed yet, but it will. Arthur is doing some usability research to understand how people use that section and how we can simplify it while making it more useful. More soon.
Change #3: We renamed Latest. The new name is All. This is part of a bigger goal of better supporting people who read everything in their feedly and for whom All, unread counts, marking things as read and saving things for later is very important. Here again, Arthur is doing some UX research which will help us streamline some of the workflows power readers have put in place.
Our focus for the first part of this year is to improve the quality and performance of feedly across the board. This is a first step towards that direction. Please let us know if you have questions/suggestions.
Turbulence – Feb 17th, Feb 18th and Feb 19th.
We are in the process of upgrading some of our back end services to be able to handle more users faster. There will be some turbulence in the service over the next couple of days.
Between now and then, here are some work arounds:
1) If you have trouble logging into Feedly/Google Reader, please visit Google Reader and see if the authentication requires a captcha, if so login first to Google Reader and then go back and login to feedly.
2) If you have trouble loading feedly, please wait a few minutes and try to restart your browser or the iOS and Android app.
The service should feel a lot faster and more reliable by the end of this week. Thank you for your patience.
Everyone needs an editor
That’s the sort of design philosophy you’ll see in action as we continue to develop Vine. Of course, as the service evolves, you’re going to be an important part of its growth. We’ve been loving your feedback and look forward to getting more of it. After all, everyone needs an editor.
From a great blog post about the design of Vine.
Smarter Sharing: Feedly connects with Buffer
It all started in summer of last year. We started to see an increasing number of users asking us to integrate buffer’s sharing features into feedly.
At first, we did not understand why: we already had good integration with twitter and facebook. With hindsight, it is obvious: feedly users tend to read their feedly once or twice a day and love to share the best articles they find with their social networks to generate engagement and cultivate their digital persona. For users sharing a lot, the bursts end up overwhelming their followers.
In November 2012, we met with the buffer team and were seduced by their level of energy and their obsession with customer happiness. Enough that we decided to do a sprint and build a small prototype of what a feedly+buffer experience might look like.
After a couple of days of usage, I was in love!
My buffer is configured with my Twitter account, my facebook account and my LinkedIn account. The configuration lives in the buffer cloud, allowing me to access my accounts from lots of different apps and lots of different devices.
In the mornings, when I read through my favorites sources in feedly, I can easily share the best articles to both Twitter and LinkedIn (I consider those two networks as isomorphic. They are both related to my passions and professional life and sharing content allows me to spark interesting conversations and build up karma).
I have scheduled buffer to deliver articles to Twitter and LinkedIn every hour. So even though I am reading and sharing all my articles at around 5:45am in the morning, they get spread through the day, resulting in much better engagement.
In December, we decided to take a couple of weeks and productize the prototype on both iOS and Chrome.
Working with the buffer team was awesome: I have rarely seen people with such a positive attitude and so focused on doing the right thing for the customer.
What we are announcing today, is the first step towards a long partnership: we have lots of great plans regarding adding more sharing options and making sharing more visual and impactful.
If you are curious on how to get started, here is a quick tutorial:
- Go to www.bufferapp.com, create a free account and connect it with your social networks.
- Go to iTunes and make sure that you have the latest version of feedly for iOS.
- When you want to share an article on feedly for iOS (or feedly for Chrome), simply tap on the buffer icon, login, select the subset of networks you want to share with and that is it.
- Over time, try to think about what would be the ideal delivery schedule for your workflow and your audience. You might need to upgrade to the buffer awesome plan to get more flexibility. I did.
Go ahead. Give it a try. You won’t go back!
See Buffer’s post about the partnership.
Special thanks to Leo and Cyril for driving this project. Thanks to TNW, AppAdvice, The Social Media Hat, Lifehack and MacLife for helping us spread the news.
Edwin // feedly co-founder and CEO
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9 Ways To Optimize The New Feedly
[Note: you can install the new feedly on iOS, Android, Kindle, Chrome, Firefox and Safari]
1) Feeling lost in the concept or navigation?
Start by thinking of feedly as a simple mobile browser. Open the explore panel by tapping on the top right search icon and search for your favorite blog or news website. Feedly should load the content of that site as a set of “cards”. Swipe through the cards until you find an article you like. Tap on the article to expand it. Read. Repeat this experience and see if you like the experience. If you do, start personalizing feedly (see point #2).
2) Search your favorite topics and add your favorite sites.
Feedly is all about personalizing your sources and customizing your news deck! A wide variety of content and media can be added, from blogs and news sites to magazines to Youtube channels to Google News topics. More than 18,000,000 awesome sources can be added. For example, if you want to add gizmodo to feedly, you can search for gizmodo (title) or #gadgets (topic) or http://www.gizmodo.com (website url) or even http://feeds.gawker.com/gizmodo/vip (rss feed url)
3) Feedly Mini, the sidekick for smarter browsing on the web. desktop only
Many times we stumble upon great content while browsing the web or exploring links shared by friends. The feedly mini icon appears at the bottom right of your Chrome or Firefox window when you install feedly desktop. It is the easiest way to connect and stay in touch with the site!
4) Sort your categories. desktop only
The way you organize your categories on the feedly desktop navigation bar defines the order in which the categories are displayed in the today section and the mobile navigation bar. So if you want to re-order things to reflect your interests, go to feedly desktop, drag and drop to re-order and then reload feedly mobile.
5) Different views for different sources.
Not all sources are meant to look the same! The list view works best for dense sources or efficiency-minded users. The cards view enhances visual content and slower reading. The magazine view bring a balance between text and visuals. Sources and categories can be individually set or you can pick a default view for all sources in the advanced settings.
6) Night and Day. mobile only
Choose between a dark background (night theme) or white background (day them). These options are available in the mobile advanced settings panel.
7) Make the most out of Today.
Some sources are must-reads to you and all of their posts should be bubbled up in your Today page. Other sources are so prolific only the latest or most popular items should make it to the Today page. That is why the option “Showcase more in Today” is useful: it will bump up the content of that source in the Today page.
8) Use Buffer for smarter sharing.
Feedly already lets you easily share articles with your twitter, Facebook and Google+. But for those us “heavy sharers” buffer is an awesome extension. The trickling feature of buffer allows you to read and share while you do your reading but the articles are delivered throughout the day to avoid punctual over sharing. Your friends and followers will love you for this!
9) Be vocal. Participate to the roadmap.
We work very closely with the feedly community to plan the roadmap of the feedly monthly releases. If you have creative ideas on how to improve the feedly experience. We would love to hear about them. See the feedly uservoice for more information.
If you are an advanced feedly user and have tips you would like to share to the community, please leave a comment.
If you are a new feedly user and have a question which is not address in this document, please send us an email to care@feedly.com.
2,000 reviews, 5-star average. Thank you.
The support you have been providing us since the launch of the new feedly mobile in September has been awesome: this has direct impact on our ranking in the app store. So thank you!
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