GO2WEB20 Blog: Eluma as a Desktop Client for FriendFeed

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Eluma as a Desktop Client for FriendFeed

Eluma is a light desktop client software that allows you to collect anything you want from the Web, organize it however you like, and share it with whomever you choose. You can also discover collections or tidbits of information that someone with similar interests has created and Eluma users recommend.

Overall, it looks like a nice RSS reader to me, but the reason I tried it at the first place, was this DEMO that show how to use Eluma alerts with FriendFeed:

After playing with this for a while, I've noticed it misses two important features:

The way Eluma displaying the messages, is not readable:
There's no direct link to a certain update:

But you know what? Eluma has good potential to become something VERY useful, if they'll fix these problems. I just threw a bunch of RSS feeds from FriendFeed, Twitter and Facebook, set their alerts (flexible setting), and got an ultimate alert system for all the stuff that I care about on the web, in just 5 minutes of work!

Sign up for Eluma private beta, if you wish to try this yourself.

Update:
100 invitations to the service!

posted by Orli Yakuel at 1:21 PM

2 Comments:

Neal Goldman said...: thanks for the nice writeup. In Eluma, you can choose from multiple layouts for reading RSS feeds. The different styles may show different links to open in the browser depending on how the feed content is put together.

Based on your feedback, we'll be building a twitter/friendfeed aware style sheet to make those feeds more compatible with viewing the way you would on their web site.

Alerts are a great benefit of reading friendfeed/twitter in Eluma. Another benefit is that you can store an item from the feed as a bookmark directly from within the feed. So if you want to keep a particular item even after the feed has expired, you can just flag, tag or collect the item and Eluma will bookmark it for you.

To make it easier for your blog readers to try Eluma, below is a link to 100 private beta invitations that they can use to download the application.

http://aardwolf.eluma.com/~content/invitations/retrieve.php?guid=483ec308704d0; 6:34 PM
Neal Goldman said...: Hi Orli,

I thought you and your readers would like to know that we opened up Eluma in a Public Beta release yesterday.

Anyone can come to our site at www.eluma.com and get the product.

Also, since you were a fan of the last video we did, thought that you might like this one we did :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fse8Tn2x0kY

Thanks.; 3:06 PM