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shyftr_logo.pngIf there’s one aspect of Web 2.0 that should be utilized for social networking purposes, it has got to be RSS feeds. There are social networking sites that lets you pull your blog’s RSS feeds but when you embed them into your social networking profile, it gets mixed up with other stuff on you profile. Shyftr takes care of this problem by providing you a platform where you can mash up your RSS feeds and share them with your network of Shyftr friends.

Shyftr which stands for Share Your Feeds Together is an online feed reader with a dash of social networking. If you are familiar with Yahoo Mash, iGoogle, Netvibes among other mash up sites, Shyftr is another one of these mashups.

Perhaps what separates Shyftr from other social mashups or social feed readers is the way it integrates RSS and social networking. Shyftr has built a networking community which is focused on feeds. If you join Shyftr, you’ll get access to a community feeds enthusiasts willing to share their feeds to you, with the hope that you’re willing to share your feeds to them as well. All you have to do to get this task done is to Shyftr those feeds in the list of feeds that you read on a daily basis.

The Shyftr dashboard is pretty simple to use and in fact designed in a simple way as well. Shyftr would remind you of Logline’s two column layout.

Creating a Shyftr profile is free and can be done easily as well. If you are convince with this article and decided to create your Shyftr account, you may want to add me to your list of friends so you could see the different RSS feeds that I read daily.

Discovered via [Read Write Web]