Cynical Peak Software released Cyndicate yesterday bringing it out of it’s beta release that started in early April. If you liked PulpFiction from Freshly Squeezed Software (FSS) you should enjoy using Cyndicate. In fact Brad Miller and Erik Barzeski from FSS are the two behind Cynical Peak. With Brad doing all of the dev work and Erik running support and as much of everything else he can.
During the beta it was great to see both Brad and Erik listening and reacting to the feed back offered and have a pretty quick turn around on bugs that were submitted. Throw in a discussion on how some of the other beta testers actually use feed readers / aggregators and the couple of ideas that came out of that; the interest shown for these ideas by the developers is very encouraging for the future of Cyndicate.
- Ratings - using Bayesian methods to teach Cyndicate to automatically rate content
- Labels - for subscriptions and / or articles
- Folders / Smart Folders - easily organize all of your feeds and articles
- Filters (including Growl support) - move stuff, label stuff, flag stuff, delete stuff or alert you to stuff
- Themes - create your own custom themes usign HTML and CSS
- Share This - post an article to Ma.gnolia, Del.icio.us, Digg or any of the other 14 services listed
