Feedlr is now alive!
Hi friend, my latest pet project feedlr has gone alive! After testing the initial version with friends, I’ve decided to make Feedlr open to the public now.
Feedlr is a service inspired by twitterfeed, built with Grails. It is both an automatic feed tweeting service like twitterfeed, and a bot showcase for miniblog users to browse, find, and follow interesting bots on popular miniblog services. Currently, Feedlr supports miniblogs including Twitter, JiWai, and FanFou. The idea is to make Feedlr a thriving farm of miniblog bots where anyone can create or adopt cute bots.
You can use Feedlr to broadcast feeds to multiple miniblogs
To do this, please first sign in or sign up for an account, and then click the “New” tab on the top and follow the simple wizard.
The wizard will ask for “bot accounts”, which means miniblog accounts used to broadcast the feeds. You should have already registered an account on a supported miniblog and provide the account information to the wizard.
A note on privacy here. Since the way miniblog API’s are designed, Feedlr has to have your bot login information in order to do the posting. So it’s strongly recommended that bot creators don’t use their personal accounts as bot accounts, but create dedicated accounts for the bot service only.
Feed creators can choose to attach a feed up to 2 bots at a time, choosing among the 3 currently supported services.
Feedlr is also a bot showcase
In addition, you can simply browse for bots on Feedlr and find interesting ones to follow. Once you want to follow a certain bot, there are two ways to follow it and both should take less than 10 seconds.
First, you can simply click the bot avatar and visit the bot’s homepage on the miniblog. Then just follow the bot as how you do it with the miniblog service.
Second, you can click the “Follow” hover menu. You will be prompted to enter your own login for the miniblog service where the bot is hosted. To ensure privacy and security, Feedlr does not record you login in any way. It’s strictly used to follow the bot for this one time.
Feedlr loves feeds, miniblogs, and you!
So start by feeding it with more feeds:)
If you have any comments, find any bugs, want any new features, or just want to say something, please leave a word or two by replying to this blog post. Feedlr is a new born baby. Love and caring makes it grow healthily and fast!