Initial Impressions: Lazyfeed Discovery Engine
This morning I received an invitation to Lazyfeed, which debuted at the TechCrunch event last week. Louis Gray has been playing with it and likes what he sees. Here are my initial impressions. Screen grabs follow.
Pros:
- It's a great way to discover new content to either read or eventually share with others. Just type in a tag and, boom, you're off
- If you connect your various streams it will automatically surface relevant content for you, based on what you already share - such as this interview with our eBay client, RBH
- I can see making this part of my lifestream workflow, right alongside Zemanta
Cons:
- It lacks, however, the ability to email content directly from the app into something else like Evernote or Posterous or sharing tools that let me push stuff into Twitter, Facebook, etc
- It does not have a mobile interface or iPhone app
- It needs a way to integrate with other applications like Postrank or Backtype so that it surfaces new content by engagement, not just keywords. Also, I would love to see it slurp in my Google Reader OPML the way Feedly can
Overall, it's pretty strong. I found some great content such as how to get your Gmail Task list outside of Gmail and more. If you're an information junkie that's looking for more signal, less noise, sign up and give Lazyfeed a go. It's not replacing
