Are you new to mergeflow.stream? Here we show you how easy it is to set up a new topic profile.
Assume you are interested in news from selected technology blogs. Perhaps you already have a set of blogs in mind, or perhaps you went to a service like technorati, ctrlq, or blekko to find your technology blogs.
We took a stopwatch to verify that one can in fact set up a new topic profile with a few feeds in under 5 minutes. Here are the steps we took:
START
Log in to your mergeflow.stream account — 20 seconds (time total = 20 seconds):
Go to “Manage” — 5 seconds (time total = 25 seconds):
Add profile (enter a name for the topic profile, and, if you like, add a description) — 30 seconds (time total = 55 seconds):
Add a feed:
We added eight feeds for starters. This took 8 x 25 = 200 seconds.
FINISHED!
So we took a total of 255 seconds = 4 minutes, 15 seconds. Done! Now mergeflow.stream does the rest.
Here you can see the topic profile we just created: http://mergeflow.net/profiles/news/tech_blogs . If you have a mergeflow account, you can add this profile to your dashboard, or clone it and add more feeds to it.
Let me say something about cloning topic profiles. You can add public topic profiles to your dashboard any time. This is great, because you have no work with this profile – everything is managed by the profile’s owner and you benefit from the changes the owner makes.
But what if you want to add some more feeds, e.g. feeds in another language? This is easy. Just clone the topic profile (you have to add it to your dashboard first) and it’s yours. You save all the initial work and can refine the profile right away. But watch out, from now on it’s you who’s responsible for keeping the profile up to date