Today, Toluu launched the long awaited feature that its members have been patiently waiting for. The new feature is the ability to label and discover new feeds using tags. Just as you would use Diigo for labeling, sorting and discovery of new bookmarks, you can now do the same with your rss feeds on Toluu.

Clicking the tags tab on any feed will reveal the top tags in the Toluu system for that particular feed. If there is no tag in the system for a specific feed, you can easily assign one.

Occasionally you will find a particular feed on the system with no tag. Toluu makes it easy to add the corresponding tag for that feed into the system. Toluu’s tag matching technology will match the keyword you assign to any other feeds across the Toluu system with similar tags. Toluu also added an auto-suggest feature which pulls from the tags you have used in the past. This makes it easier to tag feeds even faster using tags you previously have used.

I added the tag startup for the feed Startup Mentality. The system accurately found five matching feeds based on that keyword. The tagging results will strengthen in time as members start to tag feeds in the system. This will help strengthen the results to ensure even better accuracy of matching.

You can quickly drill down on tags to find related feeds in the Toluu system. The tag ‘technology’ yielded an impressive 692 related feeds.

Member profiles now display your five most used Top Tags. This is another quick way to discover what’s peeking your friends interests.

Feed pages now have new sort options. Now recent, subscribers, a-z, have been added as sort options. This now gives you a new way to look at the tags other members use and the feeds associated with them. This also makes it easier when exploring a member’s feeds because you can quickly get a feel for their interests based on the tags they may use. You will also now notice total feed counts is displayed on feed pages.

Toluu has done an excellent job with the well needed features and functionality improvements. What all this means to you is, better functionality makes for more better exploration and easier discovery.

Toluu is still in private beta. If you would like an invite to test the service out, please post your email address in the comments. You can also follow me on Toluu and discover the feeds I read.

Toluu just got a lot better & now a lot more social!

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