Inside The Mind Of Timothy Allard

Streamy Review - From A Beta Tester’s Point Of View

Posted on the August 17th, 2007 under Cool Websites, Graphic Design, Industry News, Web 2.0 by Timothy Allard

I was one of the lucky ones that got their hands on a Streamy invite from the great people over at Mashable. I have been messing around and exploring Stremy now since yesterday and now im willing to share what I think about it.

My first opinions of Streamy is that it looks beautiful, the use of AJAX in this is used very well. From how you navigate between pages, to switching views of your rss feed. Streamy is a very customizable and shareable environment. For example you can have your feeds display one per line, in a two per row pattern, or how ever you like it. The help menus are very helpful and designed nicely to move to the corresponding areas where you should be looking to do things.

The social aspect of Streamy is very promising, you can comment, add friends, share stories ith a simple drag and drop, copy and paste to save or send to a friend. The sign up process was very simple and there was no confusion on how to do what I wanted to do. Built right into the environment is an IM client where you can talk and share stories, RSS feeds and more. Anothe rcool aspect of it is there are audio alerts for certain things. Simply click on the speaker icon at the top to disable sounds.

One of the first things that came to mind when looking and exploring was, there are no advertisements at all. Whether it stays like this or not, its up to them but its cool for now. The text is very easy to read and you can change themes. The colors and loading graphic is very

I have been a huge fan of rss and recently switched over to google reader. Being such a fan of Google, I literally use 90% of their products from GMail to Google Earth to AdSense etc. but I do have to say, I have no interest in Google reader anymore. Streamy totally replaces that now and as much as I love Digg,…it will keep me away from Digg a bit also,..so maybe this product is really worth its hype in a sense that could really be a Digg killer.

Now For the Pictures!


The Welcome Screen - The welcome screen of streamy is very nicely put together, when you arrive you see the hot stories of the day with images. You can view by most recent, past 24 hours, last 7 days and last month. All clicks do a nice fade transition to display new content.



The Configuration - In this area you can make all your configuration changes from your account settings, to what theme you want to use (blue or charcoal) and all other options streamy allows for change. I like the page transitions so I will check that



The Official Streamy Beta Testers Group - This is the official group for beta testers. Nice area with cool graphic.



Streamy Recent Threads - This panel that sits along the right side of the screen displays recent threads to the Streamy environment.



Feeds Window - This panel that has all your feeds, Mashable is of course selected



Streamy Feed Display - This panel section displays a current feed you have open for view. you can customize it to show it in this arrangement, to 1 per line or more.



Streamy Profile View - This is my official Streamy Profile! Woo!



I just wanted to say thank you once again to Mashable and Streamy for this wonderful opportunity, and that all images shown in this posting are copyright Streamy! Thanks