Fully agree with Nic and let me add that tagging was a social feature in my mind when I first created this topic ! A social feature linked to the one allowing to share feeds with other or a feed that could be filtered based on tags:
sub to feeds -> read -> tag -> share
Folders have a more general/wider scope, tags allow for more details: I can subscribe to a devops blog fead on one hand, to a business analysis or project management on another, wich would be filed in the relevant folders, and both sites may publish articles on requirements management which I would tag accordingly. Then I could share a feed based on the ārequirementsā tagā¦ full featured content curation !!!
Furthermore, if you offer a public view of your newsblur, tagging immediately turns your feed reader into you āPersonnal Dailyā
Finally, in my current usage, Iām every days posting a _number_ of articles from my feed reader to my bookmark to be able to fully tag it. If Iād be able to tag into newsblur and had a way to post web pages to it (like with a bookmarklet), I could have all my starred content in one place, shared through feeds.
In the hope this will make clearer haw tags can be a powerfull social feature
I hear what youāre saying. Iām going to be launching something called Blurblogs as part of social. It may have some of what youāre looking for. Wait til that launches and then report back. Dev beta within a week and a half, launched by March at the latest, Iād say.
Interesting use case. IFTTT for an RSS feed of tagging items. I canāt build this in the near-term, but this is something Iād love to build. This helps prioritize it a bit higher.
Iām building a large social branch. While tagging will not be immediately available, you might find that was an interim solution, sharing stories will work for now. After that ships in its first, basic form, Iāll have to prioritize the following: tagging, search, customizations (custom feed order, reading oldest to newest, only unread stories), and bringing training and social to the iPhone app.
Just curious, what would you do with such a feed? I mean, I come to NewsBlur to consume feeds; generating feeds here would never occur to meā¦ but maybe Iām missing something.
Well, I could use this. Google Reader had an RSS feed for the saved stories so you can boast and share to other people the stories that you found interesting. I miss this functionality in Newsblur.
Good news! I built RSS feeds into social shared story feeds in the soon-to-launch social branch. In fact, Iām working on the invite request page for the private beta right now, launching later today.
But I really do love that use case on social feeds. Less so on public feeds. Iāll be building tagging on shared stories soon enough.
Social / public - I kind of lumped those together and maybe it was my use of certain terms that mislead this use case up the wrong ally. Apologies if it was not clear, however thatās what discussion is for, so thanks for staying open minded.
Anyway, exciting news. Count me in if you need beta testers.
My friend collects GIF images to use as responses in e-mails, so if he runs into a gif in any of his feeds, he tags it in Google Reader as āReaction GIF.ā Then when he needs one, he can go to his repository of GIFs and quickly scroll through them. He uses it completely separately from sharing features, it just lets him internally catalogue his data.
āI built RSS feeds into social shared story feeds in the soon-to-launch social branchā
something is in the dev pipeline, however not sure of time scales yet and may depend on who else votes for this request as its user driven.
Its holding me back at the moment and Iām still trying to find a solution (other than hosting my own rss aggregator) which Iām trying to avoid due to desktop and mobile integration requirements.