As we complain about Twitter and other services not working, it’s great when a service just keeps getting better.  Toluu wins the “let’s just make it better over time” award:
We have just launched a re-aligned ‘Match’ page with a cleaner UI and greater functionality. We have also made updates to ‘Contacts’ and feed ‘Subscribers’.
We recently made major changes to the architecture of matching to make it load dramatically faster. Today we have made design and functionality improvements. The new design is simpler and cleaner which should make it easier to hone in on the people and feeds that matter to …read more

I got word from Caleb last night that toluu was getting a wee update today.  Yeah you could say that–Toluu Blog » Blog Archive » New feed page views: Popular and Subscribers—now not only does it run faster (I could tell the moment he turned it on, that’s how much it improved), but you can check out how many people subscribe to a feed, when the last item was published, and see what the popular posts are.
Sarah Perez, among others, has a great review of the updates, so I’m going to look at how I use toluu, and how I …read more

The information firehose is something that we all suffer from nowadays. I won’t even use the incremented number of Web x.0, that’s just foolish marketing, but we are beginning to try to tame the information beast by pulling more together. Is that the right course and will it save us?
If services won’t save us, will better applications?
Erick Schonfeld bemoans the state of information overload in his latest post on Techcrunch:
I need less data, not more data. I need to know what is important, and I don’t have time to sift through thousands of Tweets and Friendfeed messages and blog posts …read more

I think Toluu might be one of the best new finds this year.  Sure FriendFeed and SocialThing! are helping us aggregate our online lives, but Toluu is helping me find more and more interesting stuff online.  Getting a broad perspective through RSS is key, I’d say essential, to what I do and maybe for all of us.
New Toluu features: activity feeds in RSS and RSS reader syncing in Toluu
One of the odd things about Toluu was that it launched without RSS feeds of it’s own.  So you were adding feeds and getting updates from people (via email), but what about …read more