Edwin K, Author at FK Construction Funding

Feedly For iPhone X

Edwin K2017-12-08T00:08:17+00:00

We have been using the iPhone X for two weeks and have found the fluidity of the touch-based interface and the beauty of the new OLED screen very inspiring. We just pushed out a new version of Feedly that takes advantage of these new features and more. We hope that you will enjoy using it as much as we enjoyed building it.

New Layout

The new Feedly app is optimized for the iconic iPhone notch and respects the bottom home area.

New OLED-Friendly Black Theme

The iPhone X comes with an incredible OLED display. We transformed the Feedly dark theme to pure black, creating a sharper and more energy efficient experience.

Seamless Buffer Integration

Lots of Feedly Pro users use the content they discover in Feedly to mold their digital identity and showcase their expertise on Social Media. Buffer makes sharing on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and other networks easier and more efficient. In this new version of Feedly, we have optimized the user experience for Feedly+Buffer users. In one click, you can jump from reading an article in Feedly to sharing that article in the Buffer app.

Thank you to Andy and the Buffer team for their collaboration on this joint project!

Polish, Polish, Polish…

Upgraded the Twitter and Facebook integrations so that you can easily share articles you find interesting
Improved the Google News keyword alert integration
Enhanced the source discovery experience
Fixed iPad share selection crash
Fixed iOS 11 save image crash

Available in the App Store (free)

Feedly For iPhone XEdwin K2017-12-08T00:08:17+00:00

Boards, Notes, and Highlights on Mobile

Edwin K2017-04-04T00:43:40+00:00

We just released a new version of the Feedly Mobile application for both iOS and Android. You can download them for free from the App Store and Google Play Store.

Here is a quick overview of the new features included in this release.

New Richer Cards

We enhanced the design of the card view. The new design is more readable and more modular. It allows us to surface notes and highlights when needed.

The modular design creates a uniform experience

New Notes Feature

If you are on a Feedly Pro or Teams plan, you can create notes to capture your thoughts and enrich articles with unique insights. Mention your friends and teammates by email to quickly share articles (along with your notes and highlights).

New Highlights Feature

If you are part of the Pro or Teams plan, you can also highlight important passages that you want to come back to later. Share those passages with friends and teammates.

Press and drag to select the important text, then tap Highlight

New Team Boards section

If you are part of a Teams plan, you will see a new Team Boards section in the left navigation menu. This new section allows you to quickly access all the articles saved by your teammates across all the Team Boards you follow.

Your Personal Boards are listed on top of your Team Feeds and Boards

New iOS and Android Share Extensions

On both iOS and Android—from any app or mobile browser—our Save to Board extension gives you the option to save articles to your Feedly Boards (Personal or Team).

Open your phone’s share options and select the Feedly “Save to Board” extension

One More Thing: Faster Feed Search

We redesigned the feed search experience so that you get faster and more relevant auto-completion and a broader set of topic suggestions. Finding the sources you want to follow is now faster and more relevant than before.

Mobile search returns a greater breadth of topics and sources

Bug fixes

We also took advantage of this new build to fix some bugs:

We changed the Buffer integration to avoid the crashes caused by the old SDK
For Android users, the share with email option now includes the URL of the article being shared

We look forward to seeing what the community does with Boards, Notes and Highlights on mobile. If you have questions, please leave a comment and we will be happy to answer them.

Feeling Mobile?Download the latest Feedly mobile and test drive these new features

Boards, Notes, and Highlights on MobileEdwin K2017-04-04T00:43:40+00:00

Incident report on Cloudflare parser bug

Edwin K2017-02-24T20:24:23+00:00

Cloudflare reported last night a bug in their service which could have leaked information from the services using their edge cache servers.

Feedly uses Cloudflare as a security shield which increases the reliability and performance of the Feedly web application. As such, Cloudflare informed us it is possible that some of the Feedly Web request performed between Feb 13 and Feb 18 might have been impacted by the information leak.

Despite the 1 in 3,300,000 chances of being impacted, we recommend to be extra cautious and take the following actions:

1/ If you are using the Feedly login/password, change your password. Go to the Logins page and change your password. Note: if you are using a third-party login option like Google, Facebook, or Twitter, you are NOT impacted and do not need to change your password [1].

2/ Logout and log back in. On Feedly Web, click on the face bubble icon (at the top right of the screen), select the logout option and then log back in. This will invalidate your old session/cookies and create a brand new one.

Our engineering team has a follow up call with the Cloudflare team later this afternoon and we will update this post if we learn anything that changes these recommendations.

We want to thank the Cloudflare team for how well they handled this situation. It is how you manage exceptions that defines your brand, and Cloudflare did really well despite what might have been a very stressful moment for them. We look forward to continuing to work with them to make Feedly safer and more reliable.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

-Seb, David, and Edwin

[1] The third party login authentication is performed via OAuth. You login directly with those 3rd party sites and Feedly only gets an authentication token. One of the benefits of OAuth is that Feedly or Cloudflare never get to see your third party passwords.

Incident report on Cloudflare parser bugEdwin K2017-02-24T20:24:23+00:00

Become feedly’s wordsmith

Edwin K2016-10-02T18:42:10+00:00

Hello! In the next 3 months, we will be announcing a major new offering and rolling out several partnership programs. We are looking for a prolific and talented content creator to write and produce various types of content and blog regularly, to expand feedly’s digital footprint and awareness. This role requires a high level of creativity, attention to detail, and passion for storytelling.

Why feedly?

We serve an amazing community of 10 millions smart / growth mindset individuals who are passionate about reading and learning and rely on feedly to connect to the content that matters to them.
In a world where the amount of content is exploding and trends are accelerating, connecting millions of people to the right pieces of content is an interesting and challenging mission / journey.
We are a small team of passionate engineers, designers, product managers and customers success heroes, where everyone has a voice and an impact.
We take care of our team. We provide competitive salaries, very generous stock option packages, and a full slate of benefits including health coverage and pre-tax commuter benefits. We also believe in work/life balance: we are in this for the long term.

You are:

Prolific and talented wordsmith / storyteller
Creative / energetic / driven
Social media savvy
Curious and passionate about learning new things
Care about doing what’s right for users

During the first year, you will:

Help define feedly’s narrative and voice
Work closely with the feedly product and management team to identify pieces of content that can help serve the community
Produce regularly various types of content (blog posts, white papers, infographics, presentations, etc.) to expand feedly’s digital footprint and awareness
Develop a personal brand and lay down the foundation for a vibrant feedly community

Interested?

If you are interested in exploring this opportunity, please apply by sharing some information about yourself using this form.

We look forward to reviewing your application and learning more about you!

Update: Oct 6th 2016. A big thank you to the 600 candidates to applied for this position. We are thrilled to have so many creative minds as part of the feedly community. The team is diligently reviewing each application. We will get back to you as soon as we have more information.

-Edwin / Kireet

Become feedly’s wordsmithEdwin K2016-10-02T18:42:10+00:00

New feedly Pro with notes and highlights

Edwin K2016-07-21T05:13:37+00:00

Notes and Highlights

Reading shapes what you know, who you are, and how you think. Reading is your silent teacher and mentor. With the new highlights feature, you can easily save the magic moments when you connect to new ideas – and come back to them more easily.

If you are not interested in using the new notes feature and would like to save the space at the top of your stories, there is a preference knob in your preferences page to turn this feature off.

Better WordPress Integration

If part of your workflow is saving excerpts of the best stories you discover in your feedly to one of your WordPress blogs, the new feedly Pro will save you a lot of time.

Simply click on the WordPress icon in the share toolbar and feedly will launch the WordPress PressIt window with the story you are reading. Quickly pick a picture, a category, or a tag, add your point of view and click on publish!

You can also personalize the excerpt that gets associated with the story by selecting a snippet of text before clicking on the WordPress icon.

WordPress is continuously improving their PressIt feature so we highly recommend upgrading to WordPress 4 if you want to benefit from the latest improvements.

IFTTT and Zapier

The new feedly Pro also includes a better integration with IFTTT and Zapier. This new version integrates with those platforms in real-time. For example, as soon as a story is saved to one of your personal knowledge boards (the new name for tags), all the recipes and zaps which are bound to that event are fired in real-time. We also improved the logic for image selection for recipes which require an image.

Faster Experience

We are working continuously behind the scenes to optimize feedly and add the hardware needed to keep feedly fast and boost your productivity. Here is a blog post about the performance optimizations we are currently working on.

Thank You!

Thank you for your backing: we are very grateful to be funded by our customers and to control our destiny.

New feedly Pro with notes and highlightsEdwin K2016-07-21T05:13:37+00:00

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