Library clips

24eyes is an RSS dashboard…a personal RSS Reader with a difference. Feed content is presented in widgets (RSS display boxes)…as many as you want on a page…and you can have as many pages as you want, these pages are organised into tabs or dashboards, as they are also called.

This tool blows Fyuze, etamp, and others away…it also focuses on RSS widgets, as opposed to many personal homepages, like Netvibes, which have RSS boxes as one of the many features

…I’ve really being waiting for a service that just does this one thing and 24eyes, does it so well.

One thing missing is you don’t have a URL to share with people, ie. making your own news portal for public consumption
…when you enter the URL it remembers your subscriptions, must be a cookie thing, but what about loggin in from any computer, and again sharing your newsmastering efforts for others to see.

Besides reading feeds you can also save (clip) items and tag items (not sure of the difference)…these 2 spaces also appear as widgets.

From any item, you can:

- open
- save
- email
- tag

…you can also choose items to have excerpts, and date as opposed to just titles.

From any widget (window), you can:

- create a new widget (window)
- refresh the window you are on
- enter a feed to change the content of window or from a new window
- or select a feed from the catalogue
- create a search feed from numerous search engines
- access my clippings
- access my tags
- feed properties

The only problem is that once you access your clippings or tags the window won’t change back to the feed it was on.

So I suggest making a permanent window for both clippings and tags, and maybe keep them under a tab called “My Stuff”.

Wow, this is a folksonomy for saved items as well, when you view a tag, it offers related tags and asks if you want to view items by all users with that tag.

I suggest also making a a permanent window for the tag folksonomy…highlight a window, go to the menu and choose “Find Tags”.

You can also find feeds this way via a search box.

You can also find dashboards as well, these are pre-loaded tabs (similar to a folder of feeds in a regular RSS Reader)

It doesn’t stop, you can also import, select, export feed catalogues…these are referring to an OPML feature.

Then, under the layout menu, you can email, share, publish a tab (dashboard)…when you publish a tab, it generates code to add it to your website…ie. RSS to Java resyndication for your blog sidebar.

So it’s like a personal RSS Reader with a more visual perspective, and instead of folders you have pages.

This is another way of presenting your newsmastering efforts alongside river of news tools like SuprGlu, MySyndicaat, kickRSS, Blogdigger Groups, etc…also see Bozpages (incorporates multiple views).

Again a login account, and a URL to share your own 24eyes would be supremo.

Clipmarks has yet again added some innovative features to its product and redesigned the whole interface…I think it looks much less cluttered and is very easy to get around…I like it a lot.

Basically it is similar to the 3 pane email view…click on a tag/folder, middle column shows a list of entries, and clicking on an item will show it in full on the right column…you can now also easily add comments there and then.

Besides adding comments you can now also vote for an item by “popping it”…now you can browse by most popular item according to votes (pops).

Browse items by most recent clipmark, most recently commented on clipmark, most recently popped clipmark…or a combination.

Next I’d like to sort items the same way but based on popularity
eg. most clipped clipmark, most commented on clipmark, most popped clipmark (showing the number of votes)…also sorting this by the last hour, day, week, etc…

And what about the view, it’s all in real-time (previously only the comments had a real-time view), this means you don’t have to refresh the page, you’ll notice that new entries magically appear…you can turn this off by clicking pause. The pause button will become more needed when clipmarks is more heavily used, if it becomes anything like del.icio.us (livemarks), an item you’re looking at moves to the bottom of the page in 2 seconds.

See an earlier post, and more about the newest features at the clipmark blog (especially the new print feature).

Fred from Talk Digger has now improved the quality of generating a conversation feed…these feeds are commonly used as ego feeds, to see who is talking about your blog posts.

Now when you generate a feed, it will exclude duplicates with the same URL, and it offers the option to exclude the results with the same domain name as the searched URL’s…that’s fantastic thanks heaps Fred…my request has been answered.