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SpeedyFeed - make your own syndication page
by Jason Clarke Oct 2nd 2006 at 11:00AM
SpeedyFeed is a personalized feed syndication page similar in many ways to what you can do with NetVibes or Google's Personalized Homepage. SpeedyFeed doesn't offer much in terms of additional functionality compared to the more traditional personalized homepages, but it does is offer a very clean interface, and some tag-cloud based functionality to make it easier to find popular feeds. The other big feature is the ability to share your personalized pages with other users. The first mention I saw of SpeedyFeed was when Steve Rubel blogged it, and it makes me wonder if he was searching for the best way to set up a "Blog Feeder". While it looks like he eventually decided to stick with a Google Personalized Desktop, SpeedyFeed seems like a reasonable option if you're not a big fan of Google's spartan design ethos.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
