Welcome to Grazr 3.0 Beta!
We've been working on this version for quite a while, and look forward to your feedback. Everything has been tested as well as we could, but you never know how things will work until you have lots of people try it out. We'll wait to hear from users before we declare this a final release version of the new site. Please contact me directly if you find any problems, or see any areas for improvement.
Adam GreenCEO, Grazr Corp
781-879-2960
New Features
You'll find a complete listing of the site's features on our Guided Tour page, but here is a summary of the latest and greatest in this version:
- Faster Delivery of Feeds. We've rebuilt our feed storage and delivery engine from the ground up. This should make feeds appear faster and contain even fresher data.
- Streams. We rewrote our feed code so we could deliver streams. This is what we call Grazr's new ability to merge and filter feeds. The home page displays 20 topic based streams that will give you a chance to see how useful these are for finding out what's new on any subject. All together these sample streams combine almost 1,000 feeds. The free version of the site lets you create one stream at a time from one of your own reading lists with up to 50 feeds. You can also filter a stream by keyword, date or media type. When the beta test is completed, we'll be making paid accounts available that will let you create an unlimited number of streams.
- Feed Wizard. Collecting feeds with our editor has gotten even easier with our new feed wizard. This makes it possible to select from 1,000 popular feeds organized by site and category in easy to use menus.
- Person Wizard. Tracking the activities of all of your friends on social sites has gotten easier with this addition to our editor. You can add feeds from over 50 social sites for your own online identity or that of your friends.
- Ads on Pages. It finally had to happen. After 2 years we've put ads on the site, but have no fear, there are still no ads in our free widget, and we won't put ads into the widgets in the future.
- Paid Accounts Coming Soon. Once this beta period is over, we will be adding paid accounts. These will allow unlimited numbers of merges and filters, with up to 1,500 feeds in a single stream. This is the ultimate firehose for those who can't get enough feed data. Paid accounts will also add password protected widgets, and printing of feed data to PDF files. All of our existing free features will remain free. Whatever you have been doing with Grazr.com and our widgets will remain available exactly as it has been in the past.
Thanks to everyone for your support over the last two years. We look forward to bringing you the best possible platform for feeds.