It Will Blend

[glyf]

So, as you may already have heard, we did a thing.  While I've been able to tell a few people, I've been waiting to talk about it publicly for a while.

We've gradually begun to launch Blendix.  Blendix aims to be the one site that you need to visit every day to tell you what's happening in your world.  Right now, it's an aggregator for various

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[puzzlement]

I assume this will come in time, but in due time I'd be interested in a feature comparison with Red Hat's mugshot.org. At the moment, your Blendix page is not very different from, say Jeff Waugh's mugshot page.

[glyf]

Thanks for the link. I'd actually not heard of Mugshot before

[puzzlement]

Being able to personalise a feed of a person does sound like a useful feature. (Although - even though I know they could do it manually - I'm always a little bit scared of tools that make it easy for someone else to bring together a nice coherent picture of my life for Google or other interested parties.) Is it possible to base one's feed for a person off their own feed, or would Blendix require that I keep checking their self-maintained page for evidence of sprouting an Amazon wishlist etc?

[glyf]

I'm always a little bit scared of tools that make it easy for someone else to bring together a nice coherent picture of my life for Google or other interested parties.
Well, for one thing, maybe you shouldn't be publishing so much information then :). But we do value privacy quite a bit, and one of the things we are going to be doing in the future is adding different levels of sharing, so you can create "people" which are private, or shared only with a certain group.Is it possible to base one's feed for a person off their own feed[...]?
This feature is planned, but I can't say exactly what shape it will take yet; we haven't scheduled it or figured out exactly how it will work.

[glyf]

This is definitely the most reported bug so far ;). We are working on getting that, and the "mixed content" warning, fixed.

Congrats

[djfroofy]

I guess I'm an early beta user (for about two months) and didn't even realize it. Blendix is great - it's the easiest way for me to aggregate news and information about myself and other people without some bloated desktop application.

I think there are number of areas that need some improvement to get more people using this application:

1. Yet again, support for other browsers/platforms (Safari on IPhone, ITouch for example)
2. A recognized CA - yes you've been told this
3. Better registration path *

* I think this is important. You need to explain how the product works and what it provides in simple steps before/after the registration. For example:

• Add a friend
• Import their feed URLs