Caleb has added a new feature to his socialized RSS feed sharing app, Toluu today.  Now, anywhere in Toluu when you see a feed name and you hover your cursor over it, you will get a pop-up dialog with the feed name and the last 5 articles titles.

If you click on the article titles, you will be transported directly to the article in question.

This new feature will reduce the amount of context switching you will need to do as your peruse feeds in your friends list and other places.

If you haven’t registered at Toluu yet, it’s quick and easy to get started.  You can always email me (phil – at – scribkin) for an invite!

It appears that I am behind with my weekly update on the RSS Reset project.  This is probably going to be my last update on this project, and in my last paragraph I’ll make an effort to determine if I felt it was a success or not.

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Last week, Toluu rolled out some big features.  Today, we are seeing a couple of more subtle but no less welcome improvements to our favorite feed subscription-matching service.

First up, Caleb reports via the Toluu Blog, that the feed-matching page has undergone some refinement, adding three selectable filters.  The new filters let you choose a time window for best matches, adding this month and this week to the matching algorithm.

Finally, in-line contact management as been implemented pretty much everywhere.  What this means is wherever you see another user, whether it be on your contacts list, matches, or a feed’s subscribers, you can now add or remove them from your contact list right there.  No more needing to go to a special page!

These tweaks will improve an already unique and useful (and free) service even further.  As always, you can ask for a Toluu invite here in a comment, in an email to me (phil@scribkin.com) or from Caleb at Toluu (.com .. get it?)

Many of my regular readers will be familiar with Toluu because I have linked to it quite a bit, especially in my RSS Reset articles.  Toluu is a useful, unique utility that allows you to build a portfolio of RSS feeds that you subscribe to, and then using a matching algorithm, receive recommendations for feeds that you might like and other Toluu users that have similar tastes as you.

My use of Toluu has grown these past few weeks to the point where it has become a permanent addition to the list of useful sites I hit almost every day.  So imagine how pleased I was to hear that Toluu was going to add some great new features today!

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About a week ago, Corvida and I kicked off a plan that is now known as RSS Reset.  In my original post, I said I would check back periodically and let you know how I was doing.  And here we are!

In the first followup post, I listed the 40-odd subscriptions I felt could survive the cut (and that I was still interested in following).  I’m not going to re-list all of them here, but let’s touch on the changes:

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I already have news about the little RSS reset project that I kicked off earlier today!

Corvida

Corvida has made her move over at ReadWriteWeb.  Hopefully we will get some more enterprising souls to give the project a go.

Caleb

Caleb Elston, the creator of Toluu, has been a strong supporter of this move.  He has decided to join us and should announcing this on his blog!  Welcome, Caleb! Be sure to check out his FriendFeed Room if you need help or have questions.

Also, he has hooked me up with a bunch of invites to Toluu.  So if you want to experience it for yourself, please email me at phil(at)scribkin.com and I’ll shoot one off to you. See you there!

TechMeme

Although not exactly in the same category as above, my post was featured on TechMeme!  At this point, it’s no longer front-page news, but that’s ok because I took a screenshot.

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