Streamy Review - From A Beta Tester’s Point Of View
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.
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How many times are you chronologically scanning through digg’s upcoming stories page by page, read a bit, go to page 2 and find out that you get the same results as page 1 because more stories have came in? It happens to me all the time and its very annoying. There should be some sort of system, or story marker that gets created. Once more stories come in they get put into a bucket where you can look at AFTER you are finished with your browsing. I lose interest in upcoming stories when looking through them because i see all the same things. Hopefully something can be done and attention could be brought to this issue. Support this post and let the tech team know!
Hi im Tim and I love opportunities to try new experiments and take new adventures online. Professionally I am a Digital Media Producer out of Boston, MA and design, develop and produce interactive media.