Ethan Gahng is a founder of Lazyscope (www.lazyscope.com). Lazyscope is a news reader application which turns your Twitter stream into an RSS reader, and lets you follow not just Twitter but everything else outside of Twitter as well, such as photos, videos, and even websites directly. The company also built Lazyfeed (www.lazyfeed.com), a web-based feed reader with a unique approach which delivers latest web content not based on sites but based on topics. He envisions the world where everything comes to people instead of people going to them, so that time can be spent on more important and creative things.
What is LazyScope?
LazyScope is a cross-platform (adobe AIR) Twitter client that automatically shows you the first 60 words or so of any link included in a tweet from those you follow.
For example @Pitch_Doctor (Martin Soorjoo) tweeted, “An Optimistic Outlook for Entrepreneurs in 2011 http://bit.ly/gdFaPP” and LazyScope automatically displayed from the Grasshopper Group blog post: “An Optimistic Outlook for Entrepreneurs in 2011″ ” John D. Rockefeller once declared, “If you want to succeed, you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.” Given the visible rate of economic recovery, perhaps more”
By providing an intro snippet of what was just a link in a tweet, LazyScope makes Twitter content much more engaging. A single click expands LazyScope to show the entire post; and a single click lets you subscribe to that blog’s feed in LazyScope.
If you want to be the first among your online community to tweet about something you recommend, LazyScope is the best application we’ve seen for this.
Videos
Posts about
First look: Lazyscope updated tonight (cool Twitter client that uses RSS), Robert Scoble, Scobleizer, Dec. 5, 2010.
Lazyscope Turns Twitter Favorites Into Read-It-Later Bookmarks, Erick Schonfeld, TechCrunch, Dec. 16, 2010.
Contact Info
Lazyscope site
Lazyfeed site
Follow LazyScope on Twitter
Ethan Gahng on LinkedIn
Interview questions:
- So how is LazyScope different from the other 10,000 Twitter Apps out there?
- Why would you want to combine your Twitter stream and RSS feeds?
- What can you do with LazyScope that you can’t do with say Twitter’s client or TweetDeck?
- Tell us about yourself. How did you come to write two “lazy” apps?
- What’s LazyFeed and how is like and unlike LazyScope?
- Both applications seem stable, but they’re both in Beta still. When will they go 1.0 and how do you plan to make money with them?
- How big is your company?
- Is LazyScope/LazyFeed your first startup?
- What’s surprised you the most about what’s happened so far?
- How did you get both Robert Scoble and TechCrunch to post about LazyScope?
(Interview set for Jan. 10, 2011, Show date: TBD)
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