Feedback!!

A new important version release is coming in the next months. We want to make sure that we get all the opinion, feedbacks, ideas, critics, suggestions, etc.. during the development.

To do that we opened a group on Google to let you express all this ideas.

You can find it in Feedback!

Thanks for your help.

my favorite lists Feeds

Just to help the users to find the information they need and to viewed it quickly. Now you have an option on the sidebar( if you are registered) called my feeds. With this option you can view the feeds of your favorite lists you have choosen.

I implemented the same feature in the mobile version to make a quick view of what's going on on your favorite lists

More internal advances and corrected a bug with the feeds. Sorry by the delay but I was traveling.

New Ranking system

I have implemented a new ranking system to follow what is really important in all the elements of L-exp ( Lists, Resources and Feeds). There is an automatic system that evaluates any element and makes a rank calc. The result is that the concept rank appears on all the elements given an idea of what the importance is.

The rank will progress as the elements are being used and added.

There is a formula tu evaluate the karma(value) of an element. This formula is based on views, uses and other secret components. I need to work on it to make it more fair with all the possible variables. At the moment I have implemented only internal variables, but maybe will be an idea to add some external variables in this rank to make it more rich.

You can view the ranking of lists and resources and also you will find what changes are happening.

As I explain in the previous post my idea is to make easier to find the most important data to help de visitors to save time finding the best information

Hope you like it

Improving the user experience

My idea always has been to not compete with a feed reader. I want to help finding the best information in the less time. To do that I have implemented a new philosophy in L-exp.

Now when you view the feeds you will find the ones that have been viewed many times with a different color ( yellow scale). This will help you to find what are the most viewed feeds and have the option to filter it.

Also now when you view the feeds from the main page (Top feeds) you don't see all the feeds and you will only see the feeds that have been viewed by other users. This will give you a good filter to do a quick review of what is getting hot.

Another objective that I have is to be a place of reference and always keep the source of information easily accesible. To do that I have implemented a better sanitize method that converts the feeds in plain text ( without links). If you want to find the links, videos or more detail you will have to go and view the source.

Other changes

• Improvements in icons and UI
• A lot of bug fixes
• Improved feeds sanitize method
• Mobile UI improvements
• Added Facebook sharing
• Performance optimization
• Other small fixes

I am having a lot of visits every day and this Rails application is becoming very stable and fast. I'm very happy with Ruby on Rails

More than 1,600 resources and a New resource Cloud

Now we have more than 1,600 resources on L-exp. I found that it will be interesting to have a cloud and see what are the most used of them. Also you can browse directly all of them helping you to locate easily one. Browse the new cloud on List Cloud

Lists can be exported using OPML

Now you can export any list to an OPML XML format and then import it on your favorite feed agregator. You will find Export OPML in the list reader and will open a new windows with the XML file. You have to be registered to use this feature.

This is my step to open L-exp information to any source and person.

Sharing items

I just push a new feature in L-exp, the option to share items with the rest of the users. The idea is that you want to save or simply share with others an interesting feed you have found. Just clicking on share it will keep saved for ever (almost). This feed won't be deleted after 15 days and you have two options to view it. View in my shared items or in Shared items on the main page ( see the new tab). In the last option you will see all the users shared items viewing the items they liked.

Hope you like this new feature.

January and Feb '08

• Mobile version: Now works greate with a lot of improvements. The option to view the resources and better page navigation
• Lists navigation : added an option to browse forward and backwards the lists ( order of update)
• Sharing: Added an option to share a feed. When you shared you keep it undelete and browse it later. In the future this option will let some social functions
• Enhacements in server processing
• Post to L-exp button for browser. Del.icio.us like button to post resources to lists from a web browser ( only for editors)
• Rails 2.0 migration: Works great
• Bug corrections

Try the mobile version from a mobile phone and you will have a nice alternative to keep update of what is happening in the lists

December '07 changes

• Development and improvement of the mobile version. Great to use on a phone
• Detection and redirect to mobile or desktop browsers
• Feeds reading enhacements: Reading, formating, saving in del.icio.us and added pagination
• SEO enhacements
• Rails 2.0 changes
• Bug corrections and other minor changes

Nov-Dec '07 Changes

The following changes and enhacements:

• New basic mobile version of l-exp http://wwww.l-exp.com/m/
• Finished a complete feeds coverage: Feeds by lists (showing sublists feeds also), Feeds by tag and other improvements.
• Corrected some SEO things
• UI improvements ( not finished)
• Bugs solved

Looking forward to finish the enhacements to start BETA 1