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Dec 2 2010

Welcome To My Tiny Newsletter! tinyletter.com/startupproduct

A few months ago I've started a tiny newsletter - a private mailing list that I decided to  devote to my Product Management endeavors.  It is based on TinyNewsletter service, started by Philip Kaplan, it's free (so far) and you can subscribe to it here:

http://tinyletter.com/startupproduct

It has been pretty occasional, barely once or twice a month.  I'm planning to keep timing for it about the same.  

While I'm still planning to keep both blog and newsletter active, ideally, I want to build a special environment in it which stimulates discussions and people can be free in sharing things around because it all stays private (and it really does).  Quite opposite to publicity of the blog, I want to keep up great topics surrounded by warm feeling, so you look forward every post.

I do appreciate any feedback in it.  A lot.  It could be as little as "Thanks" and... no limits. ;)  I am willing to improve and raise an interesting issues, so do not hesitate to reach out to me and ask.  Also, say it, if I'm doing something boring.  I prefer to rephrase Google's "Don't Be Evil" into "Don't Be Boring".

The content is not and would not be posted anywhere else.  While I have nothing against of readers sharing excerpts publicly, I'd recommend to keep it to ourselves.

If you or someone you know is interested in new products, startups, entrepreneurship and many other topics (including bike riding, snow boarding and even watchmaking - I'm passionate about wristwatches, been said - a fan, not a collector!), I urge you to join and subscribe here:

http://tinyletter.com/startupproduct

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Nov 20 2009

Yahoo! Pipes for Twitter's Reading List

I've managed to create a very nice and probably useful Yahoo! Pipe to manage my Twitter friend's feed as a reading list.

As you know, nowadays it's a common practice to post interesting links to your Twitter feed. Even I personally hooked up my Google Reader with the help of Twitterfeed to post articles that I want to share directly to my feed on Twitter. Works well, except that I miss a lot of links. I can't read my friends feed all day long (and I'm following only a hundred or so people). So whenever I read the feed (very occasionally) I can hit the shared links of only that period of time. I don't browse history or anything like that.

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However, I'd probably like to read all the links that they advice to visit. I'm pretty picky about whom I'm following. You can call it social news. Where your social circle is doing the job on filtering the news for you. And you end up with a list of "pre-approved" things that you're safe to go with, without high risk of wasting your time.

Anyways so I run into this venture and built a quick hack for myself.

http://pipes.yahoo.com/white/twitterreading

I call it Twitter Reading List. You put your name & password in there (yeah, I can be a asshole and copy your data, so take a look at the source first if you're afraid of it :), and you will get a RSS feed of all posts from your Twitter friends, whom you follow and who posted something interesting. This pipe will fetch a title of it for you, as well as link it to direct link to whatever your friend wants you to read.

Well, yeah, on the negative side, I don't like the idea of sending my password plain-text, but... whatever. One more thing, it looks like it's limited to some specific number of posts there. It's probably possible to overcome, I don't know.

So fire it up, link to your Google Reader or any other favorite news reader and have fun!

P.S. IT IS buggy. It's a dirty hack and I need to fix the regexp for URLs among many other things, but it works.

P.P.S. Yahoo! Pipes rock. This is definitely a great way to easily sketch up a tool and use it right away. Try it yourself.

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About Olexandr Prokhorenko

My name is Olexandr Prokhorenko. I am passionate about building products that users *love*.

My LinkedIn profile is www.linkedin.com/in/white.


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