As a result of your feedback, ideas and our great developers – here’s our new top list of Channels!

Today it’s really simple, just a top list with a ranking based on the number of subscribers. In the future we will make this more useful by adding more aspects to it (example: “Channels with most interactions today, this week or month”). And yes, we will make it easier to find Channels in many more ways in the future.

Another feature we’re rolling out today is a small one asking you if you want to tweet your subscription to a Channel when you subscribing. We’ll launch many features like this in the future, if you have any ideas in how to connect Channels to other services like Twitter, Facebook, Delicious or whatever service you’re using – please let us know.

Företagande
The Swedish site foretagande.se for entrepreneurs started to use Twingly on their front page last week. We really like entrepreneurship, so we think this is brilliant!

Kyrkans Tidning
The Swedish Church have their own newspaper and since a couple of weeks ago they are using Twingly on their site. So when you’re blogging about religion or things related to the Swedish Church, you will get a link back from their site if you linking to them. Other Twingly Partners in this niche are Vårt Land (Norway) and Dagen (Sweden).

2grader
2grader.se is a campaign site about the climate debate in Copenhagen in December. The focus for the site is to give attention to the climate debate. They’re using Twingly to show and link back to the blog posts linking to them on their frontpage.

Stay tuned, there’s more partners on their way.

The most common question is “how do we find more channels?” and yes, it’s kinda hard. In the future there will be a catalogue and search for Channels but for now, the only way to find them is by testing url:s (twingly.com/channelname) or if someone is linking to it in some way. This is an active decision by us, we want Channel creators to invite people themself.

To help you find some more Channels to check out, here’s some examples that not has been featured at Twingly.com yet:

Swedish Channels:
Sweden Social Web
Media & Journalistik
Telekompaketet
Ettan

International/English:
Search Engines
Cloud Computing
VC Blogs
Iphone

Danish:
Sociale Medier

Italian:
Notizie Social Media

German:
PR 2.0
Netzwertig
Evet Ich Will

Norwegian:
Journalistikk og Medier
Teknologi og Medier

This week we will let a lot more people start Channels, so be sure to fill out the form if you’re interested.

Twingly Channels closer to launch than ever and on Thursday October 1st we’ll finally release the Twingly Channels Private Beta!

Last week we invited our registered users at Twingly.com to apply to create a Twingly Channel for their interest or favorite topic. It’s a understatement that we were amazed by all the great ideas and cool people  all over the world that wanted to create a channel.. Thanks, users! You rock our world!

Our users had the opportunity first, now anybody can have a  go at it! Apply to create a Twingly Channel at http://tw.ly/createchannel.

As for the upcoming launch, we can’t even begin to tell you how excited we are. Watch this space Thursday for info on how to get your hands on your own beta invite code!

We’re therefore very happy to announce that they’ve launched Twingly on their site today! So when you blog about their content, you’ll get a link back just as on Publicò and iOnline, the other Portuguese sites that are using Twingly.

Happy blogging, Portugal!

Now they’ve been adding tweets to their counter, so you can tweet instead of blog to get them donate. For every tweet with a link (links shortened with url shorteners are counted, too) to uppdragbarn.se they’re donating 10 kr (about 1€). Blog links are still counted and for each of them they’re donating 20 kr (about 2€).

So, plz rt.

A Twingly Channel acts as a social filter on top of feeds and realtime search, allowing you to set up a social memetracker for any topic or event. The underlying idea is that by aggregating feeds and realtime search results into a channel where many people sharing the same interest can discuss and vote on the content (while also providing a filter to solve the prevalent problem of information overflow) we lower the learning curve to the realtime web.

Twingly Channels provides instant user value without the user having to spend time finding the right people to follow. Following topics rather than individuals, you immediately tap into the collective intelligence of a group of people sharing your interests. Or you can create your own channel and invite others to assist you in picking feeds and keywords to monitor.

A Channel consists of two views. While the Incoming view shows the full stream, the Popular view is filtered using attention data from the realtime web and from users posting links, comments and likes.

Here’s a bundle of screenshots showing these examples of these two views (click to enlarge!):

One specific use of Twingly Channels will be to monitor all conversations around a brand, for internal use or to provide a social space for fans of the brand (click to enlarge!).

Not easily shown in a screenshot is the fact that everything in Twingly Channels is realtime: the incoming stream of new content, user comments and likes and the filtering into the memetracker view. We leverage our existing search engine for blogs and microblogs to bring new results into relevant channels based on the search terms channel owners have defined.

Some coverage on Twingly Channels so far:

Techcrunch:
Exclusive Screenshots Of Twingly Channels: A Personalized, Real-Time Memetracker

The Next Web:
Twingly Channels could be the FriendFeed beater we’ve been waiting for

UPDATED In German:

Netzwertig:
Gemeinsam gegen die Informationsüberflutung
Translated: United against the information overload

In Swedish:

Metro:
Twingly skapar ny mikrobloggtjänst

Ny Teknik:
Smartare sök när användarna hjälps åt
Translated: Smarter search when users help each other

DN.se:
Twingly från Linköping utmanar Google
Translated: Twingly from Linköping challenges Google

Anders Thoresson:
Twingly vill göra RSS-läsaren social
Translated: Twingly wants to make the RSS-reader social

They are based in Cottbus, which is situated close to the Polish/German border, between Berlin and Dresden. Here the Google-Map for everyone that wants to take a closer look, the region is called Lower Lusatia.

Historically, Lausitzer Rundschau (short version LR) has come a very long way. They were founded in 1946 and have been a newspaper of the SED (the leading political party in the German Democratic Republic) for the region of Lusatia. Obviously being an SED-paper was not quite that beneficial for their reputation, mock names at that time were among others “Lügen-Rudi” (”lying Rudi”).

In 1991, the “Wende”, as one calls the big political change in Germany, also started for Lausitzer Rundschau. They got bought by the  Saarbrücker Zeitung, which again is a part of the Holtzbrink Group, one of Germany’s biggest publishing groups.

Since then LR is an independent newspaper and strives to supply their region with high quality regional news. They run 11 local news papers in the Brandenburg region and 2 in the Saxon part of Lusatia.
No talk about “Lying Rudi” anymore nowadays, which shows that they succeeded in really being “more than just a newspaper”.

Their online strategy has developed significantly during the past years. The latest steps are to connect its content closer with the world of social media. LR-Online now has not only joined Twitter actively but also wrote some really good articles for their readers about the subject.

LR-Online wants to involve external blogs more with its content, and this is where Twingly comes into the game. Having already some Swedish and Norwegian regional newspapers as partners that use Twingly successfully, we really are excited to see what our blog service will be able to do for LR and we look forward to support them in their social media strategy.

So all you bloggers with love for sport, fashion and outdoor life now you have the perfect opportunity to link to the products on Stadium.se to get a link, and some attention from their visitors, to your blog! Maybe even write a product review in your blog?

Happy blogging!