Mozzler

I am pleased to announce a greatly enhanced update to the Mozzler Beta, now with support for Twitter lists and popout windows among many other features.

Mozzler aims to help Twitter and Facebook users read and discover news that interests them. Updates from friends of both social networks are merged into a single stream. All twitter streams (lists, users and search results) provide a much better reading experience than other twitter clients, with all URL’s expanded upon with full headlines.

The Mozzler Beta is invite only, but follow @mozzler_news on Twitter to be alerted to new invites. See the bottom of this post for more details.

Lets jump straight to some screenshots…

Twitter Lists

As you would expect, reading a Twitter List through Mozzler looks very similar to reading your News Stream. All twitter links are expanded upon, providing full headlines, page descriptions and images pulled from the underlying page.

There is also the option of displaying “Links Only”. This option only shows tweets that contain links, turning the twitter list into a stream of news similar to RSS.

Mozzler also has detailed support for categories of Twitter Lists. You can easily browse Twitter lists and then view each one as a stream of content. Each list shows common tags associated with the list and one-click subscription buttons.

Popout Windows

Each stream of content (Facebook, Twitter, Searches, Lists etc.) can be popped out into a resizable column. This enables you great flexibility to place the stream anywhere you like on your desktop.

Also note on the screenshot that some items near the top are highlighted in green. These are new items that have been pushed to the stream after the page has loaded. The page title bar also indicates how many new items there are. A simple swipe of the mouse over the item will mark it as seen.

Other Mozzler Features:

• Read a single stream that merges your Twitter and Facebook friend updates into one
• Browse messages received via Facebook and Twitter in a single stream
• Easily browse users favourite tweets
• Support for Facebook comments and retweeting of Tweets
• Support for trending twitter topics
• Enhanced view of tweets, with lots of information about URL’s added for esier scanning
• Suggestions — Mozzler will suggest twitter lists and people to follow based on your interests and tweeting history

Want an invite?

The first 30 people to retweet this post will receive an invite to the Mozzler Beta. Make sure you are following @mozzler_news first, so that you can receive the invite via Twitter Direct Message.

Currently, all beta users get 10 invites to hand out to their friends.

We have opened to the public the most popular twitter lists to browse as a Mozzler stream. Here are the most popular twitter lists. Here is an example of the breaking news twitter list as a Mozzler stream.

Mozzler streams have several key features:

• Option to only show tweets that contain links
• Headlines and descriptions are displayed, providing a more RSS-like display
• Videos and images are displayed within the stream

Merry Christmas to those who celebrate the day or happily holidays if you have other plans.

Here’s a fun video to get into the spirit of things “Must be Santa” - Bob Dylan.

For those who missed out on Mozzler beta invites, there will be more announced in the New Year, follow @mozzler_news to be first in line.

On Friday 20th November I launched Mozzler, a real-time search engine and news streaming website.

You can see a video of the launch above (6.5 minutes in)

Visit Mozzler now: http://www.mozzler.com/

Mozzler allows you to build a news stream from search keywords, twitter users (like twitter lists), specific websites and hashtags.

It is still early stages, however there will be some further enhancements coming shortly that help aggregate a personal news stream for users of social networks.