Toluu Blog

We are fulfilling the 2 most requested features to date; RSS feeds of activity and tighter feed reader integration.

Your activity stream is being liberated! We are now generating 2 RSS feeds for your activity. One is your activity on the site and the other is your activity plus your contact’s activity.

Now your Toluu activity; the feeds you add, the feeds you favorite, the people you connect with, is now completely portable. We expect many people will take this stream to places like FriendFeed or Socialthing. Simply plug it in like any other feed and your friends on these services will see what you are up to. The cool thing about the combined feed of your activity + contacts is this would be a great feed to your feed reader to keep up to date with what your friends are doing on Toluu without missing a beat. I have been using the feed this way and find it super useful.

Below is a screenshot of the full activity feed-

The next thing is tighter feed reader integration. We have heard from users, ‘I found and added a bunch of feeds on Toluu, how do I get them to my feed reader easily?’. We do have a really easy way to ‘Export’ your subscriptions, but this was not the best solution for daily use of the site. We knew we could do better.

Now, when you find an interesting feed on Toluu and click ‘+ Add Feed’ the feed will be automatically added to your Toluu account and to your feed reader of choice. All you do is pick your feed reader and from then on we take care of the rest.

We support services like Google Reader, Netvibes, Rojo, Bloglines, Pageflakes, Newsgator, and Desktop readers. If your reader is not there you can always get the raw RSS by selecting Desktop Reader. And if you ever decide to change feed readers simply go into your account settings and switch your feed reader.

Adding the feed ‘louisgray’ to Toluu and then Google Reader

Adding feed to Google Reader

The account page where you can update your reader choice

This new streamlined flow gets us closer to closing the gap between Toluu and your feed reader.

Please let us know what you think of the new features and if you find any weirdness let us know.

(P.S. Logout then log back in to take advantage of the new feed reader integration)