Archive for the ‘features’ Category

 
 
 
 

Twitter sharing is now live

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

I've now added sharing of content items to Twitter as well as the Facebook sharing that's already there. This should make it very simple to share items that you find on ReadPath with your twitter stream. The share buttons are on the news reader page as well as on all of ...

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Private comments now available

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

ReadPath now supports commenting on shared items. This is a quick and easy way to bounce ideas around and discuss the latest news. Commenting on ReadPath is protected by groups though, so that when you share an item and later participate in comments, you determine the group or people that ...

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Top Rated Filtering

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

There is a new feature in todays release for Top Rated Filtering. This feature allows you to remove low scoring news items when reading on the News page. As you read and rate items with the ratings check marks, ReadPath adapts and scores your unread items. Now you can remove ...

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Unread item changes

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

The backend system for determining unread has items has been totally revamped as of todays deployment. This will make it possible to do some cool new things and should free us up quite a bit scalability wise. The one downside is that the new system is not backwards compatible with ...

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Email update

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Over the weekend a new format for emails was introduced. ReadPath is now sending out dual format text / HTML emails. This should be a much cleaner format for receiving updates and notifications. Plus it should gracefully fall back to text if your email client can't handle the HTML formatting. Along ...

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Duplicates Update

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

I've just pushed out a new release that should fix most of the remaining duplicate item issues. An unfortunate side effect of this though is that as the subscriptions correct themselves you might see a few more duplicates. It has to do with which format of RSS the subscription used. ...

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Updating Email Preferences

Monday, August 4th, 2008

With today's release you can now adjust your preferences for receiving email from ReadPath. There are currently two preferences to set. "ReadPath Update Email" determines how often you receive notifications of unread personal shared items. You can set this to daily, weekly, or never. The other option "Receive Shared Item Notification" determines ...

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Updated Friends Page

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

I've just added a new feature to the Friends page. You can now set a filter to allow you to view only one type of item at a time. This way you can look at just photos or just messages. By changing the selection, you'll be changing what types of ...

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Updated Search Results

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

All of the different types of searches that you can do at ReadPath have now been updated. On the News story search results we've added snippets to the results listing. The search engine does a quick scan of the content of the story to find the best snippet that is relevant ...

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

No more unread items update

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

We've updated the way that the "My News" section works so that when you get to the end of your unread stories is displays links to the archive pages of all of the subscriptions for that set. If you're viewing a single subscription it'll just show that subscription's archive page, ...