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I finally got hold of an invite to Toluu. First impression, this could really be a hit but it’s still a long way to get there. Since it’s still a beta they got alot of bugs to fix. For instance I can’t deselect the option to not notify me via e-mail everytime one of my contacts adds a feed. I guess these kinds of bugs will be history soon, because I did submit this bug.
Besides all the bugs the first impression is rather good. The import of all my feeds worked out very smoothly. As mentioned before Toluu supports OPML. The first thing you will notice is that your feeds are automatically compared to other users feeds. You can easily access a list of other users with similiar feeds. Works just like Last.fm’s Taste-o-meter. But I must admit I’m not going to use Toluu to discover people with similiar interests. Thereby my opinion is that Toluu is a great service for people who want to check out what feeds other friends reads and hopefully discover a bunch of new feeds. So I hope my friends will start using Toluu when it goes public. But I will still stick to NetNewsWire as my rss-reader of choice. Toluu will thereby help me discover and share feeds with my friends.
So overall Toluu is a great service, but there’s still some work left. Hopefully more and more people will start using this service as soon as it goes public, and then it’s real purpose will work out as mentioned before.
If you want to try out this service just post your name and mail adress in the comment section and we will send you an invite.
- Anton Lindqvist, Qvister
// Tomas Nihlén, Editor in Chief
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Thanks for the honest review. I agree that there are bugs to iron out and that is why we are keeping the service private until things are more progressed.
Regarding the email alerts, you can turn them all off very simply, just visit http://www.toluu.com/account/notifications. We know that not everyone will want to receive email alerts.
As you point out, Toluu is not aiming to be a feed reader. It aims to make it easy to see what your friends are actually reading day-in and day-out. And then help you discover other interesting feeds tailored to your tastes.
We are still in our infancy and can’t wait to integrate all of the great feedback we have been receiving to make Toluu even more useful.
Caleb
Founder Toluu
Thanks for your feedback Caleb!
The problem is even if visit my settings and deselect all “boxes” and hit Save, the page will reload and the boxes are selected again. So it won’t save my settings.
By the way, Toluu has the best 404-Page I’ve ever seen
Glad you like the 404 page!
I will investigate the bug of the settings not being saved, I can certainly adjust them manually for you until we get the bug fixed.
Cheers,
Caleb
Another important issue that I noticed quickly was that the service generates a lot of automated e-mail notifications. I would like to have that function turned off as default. I would rather see a RSS flow with these updates.
Tomas - Urban Lifestyle
Just wanted to give you a quick update.
We felt the pain of many emails when you had more than a handful of comments. So we changed the default and added a daily digest. Now new users, are not alerted every-time a contact adds a feed.
This has greatly reduced the amount of emails we send out. And as always you could disable all notifications from your account if you want.
Caleb
Toluu