New Toluu Features

Toluu, the new OPML sharing service that I blogged about on Read Write Web, has just added two new features folks have been asking for: RSS feeds for the activity stream and tighter integration with feed readers.

You can now subscribe to your activity stream in two different ways – either a "me only" stream or a "me and my contacts" stream (which makes more sense), so you can stay up-to-date with the happenings on Toluu. Since the stream is now available as a feed, it can be easily added to places like, say, FriendFeed!

Although I didn’t see any links on the page to these RSS feeds, my trusty Firefox browser helped me find them. The format for the feed is:

http://www.toluu.com/activity/username.rss – for just you

or

http://www.toluu.com/activity/username_and_contacts.rss – for you and your friends

I added mine to FriendFeed just now.

But even better is a new feature that lets you add any feed from inside Toluu into the RSS reader of your choice automatically. Although there is an export feature to export your OPML file from Toluu, it isn’t a good solution for just adding one new feed or two to your reader from Toluu. So now, when you find a good feed on Toluu, you can just click ‘+ Add Feed’ and it will be automatically imported into your reader.

You’ll need to set up your reader preferences first, though, which is done under your account settings. Toluu currently supports Google Reader, Netvibes, Rojo, Bloglines, Pageflakes, Newsgator, and desktop readers. If your reader isn’t supported, choose the desktop reader option to get access to the raw RSS.

Toluu is currently in private beta and I ran out of invites, but I have a list going on the RWW blog entry, so when I get more, those people will receive them first. You may want to add your name in the comments if you want to be included on that list, too.

Feel free to add me on toluu, my username is ‘sarahintampa.’

UPDATE: Just heard that Frederic has invites; DM him on Twitter if interested.

Tags: FriendFeed, opml, RSS, social media, toluu