How do I add a new feed to Djinngo?
Public/Private, Tagging: what's that for?
How do I see what I am subscribing to?
Search my sources, what does it do?
How do I see what's been recommended to me?
Profile: discover through your contacts
How can I add a contact to my contact list?
How do I share something with my friends?
See what your contacts shared with you
Feed...RSS...ATOM... what is that?
First and foremost, thank you for signing-up as alpha user.
Your feedback will be very important in making this service a better experience, so please any feedback, questions, issues, send them to support@djinngo.com.
What you see now is only the beginning, stay-tuned for more very soon.
What is Djinngo?
In this world of information overload, Djinngo aims to be the one place where you can pick and choose what you want to see as fits your mood of the moment... where you easily get to this one piece you know you wanted...where you can share with your friend as desired... and where you can discover new goodness everyday
How do I add new content to my Djinngo?
You can either browse through the profile of your friends and see what they aggregate or browse through the contents already available in Djinngo by exploring the gallery, finally you can also add new content you're interested in.
Today, we offer you 3 ways to add new content:
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enter a feed url:
add manually the RSS feed from the site you're interested in by clicking on my stuff/add new feed
then - once you added the feed, this feed will be displayed on your current page as well as archived in your content sources
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import an opml file:
you can also import an opml file inmy stuff/add new feed
This means that if you are currently using another RSS reader that allows to save your feeds as an opml export then you will be able to import all your favorite feeds in Djinngo in one single time. A painless way to come and test our service using your favorite content. In your feed reader, export the opml file by saving it to your disk, then import it in Djinngo by browsing your disk and finding that file. - Once you imported an opml file, you will be able to find your content backs in my stuffs/my sources and organize it the way you want on your pages
- feed grabber: you can also install our Firefox extension by going to tools
This extension allows you to very easily add content of interest to your Djinngo provided that the website allows it and offers RSS, this just by clicking on the Djinngo extension.
Public/Private, Tagging: what's that for?
When you add new content in your Djinngo:
By making your feed public, you add it to the catalog of content available to any member of the community, thereby growing anyone's chance of discovering great new content. You can allways change this later by clicking on Edit in the module of your feed.
We think tagging is a great way to categorize your content, this to find it easier afterwards.
How do I see what I am subscribing to?
Click on my sources and it will show you what you are subscribing to.
All these feeds are searched when you are making a search through search my sources
You can drag and drop any of these feeds to your page to see them.
What if I delete a block?
Deleting a block just means removing it from your page. You would still be subscribing to it. Click on my sources and it will show you what you are subscribing to. You can drag and drop any of these feeds to your page to see them.
Search my sources
Search my sources allows you to do a search on an item of interest, this on all the sources you subscribe to, not only what you see on your pages.
The search results will appear in a new module that you can choose to keep.
If you keep it, it will get refreshed automatically when new contents related to that keyword come up.
We feel that this search feature is very powerful and in fact it was at the start of our work on this service. You have so much content in so many places, how do you keep on top of what interests you?
A personalized portal helps you have all in one place, but still, pretty quick if you start adding to your pages all what you're interested in, you find yourself in a situation of information overload.
With this search module, you can unclutter your page: subscribe to as many sources as you want, but you're not allways obliged to have them all on your page, just create searches on subjects you're interested in and voila, we give you the nitty-gritty on these subjects from all of your favorite sources in one little box.
Looking for an exact sentence? use quotation marks (i.e "San Francisco" for San Francisco)
Popular Keywords
From all the content sources you chose to aggregate, we retrieve the most popular metadata associated to them so that you can easily view what's currently hot with your content. You can drag and drop any of these keywords to your webtop and this will display all the content related to these keywords. You can then save this block and everyday it will get refreshed with the newest content associated with that keyword. We think this keyword cloud is an easy way to see what's up with your sources.
Your contacts and recommendation
Having contacts allows you to easily share with your friends something of interest to you.
You can either drag and drop a single item in a content block or the entire block to your contact.
You can also share directly from the preview window by clicking on Share at the bottom right.
Add contact by looking for other Djinngo users or by inviting others to join the party.
How do I see what's been recommended to me?
To see what has been shared with you, or all your new messages in general, click on messages or check message next to your contact's picture.
If your contact is recommending you a feed, or a news from a feed you did not know about, you can easily add it to your own subscriptions by clicking on Add to Djinngo next to the feed.
profile: discover through your contacts
You can click on any of your contact's profile to see:
Can I add anybody?
Yes, you can! Click on Invite and there you go. We think that the more people, the merrier.
How can I add a contact to my contact list?
We offer you several ways. First, click on Add, this allows you to search for other Djinngo users. You can search for other users by name, e-mail and user name. You can also invite users not on Djinngo by clicking on Invite.
How do I share something with my friends?
2 ways today.
To share something with your contact, simply drag and drop it to your contact. You can share a single item or a whole content block.
You can also share directly from the preview window by clicking on Share at the bottom right.
See what your contacts shared with you
To see what has been shared with you, or all your new messages in general, click on messages or check message next to your contact's picture. If your contact is recommending you a feed, or a news from a feed you did not know about, you can easily add it to your own subscriptions by clicking on Add to Djinngo next to the feed.
I see a link to an item but when I click on preview, I get a message saying that the content is not available anymore, what's happening?
In order to be able to search through your content, we keep an index of all the metadata/keywords associated with an item that has been published. If what you are subscribing to involves pictures and video, we also create a small thumbnail from that picture for display purposes (we like it better to look at our pictures and video feeds through thumbnails) If the publisher decides to remove that item, we will still have a reference to that item but that item will be gone... which is why you will not be able to preview it.
Feed... RSS...ATOM... what is that?
Put simply, a web feed allows you to subscribe to a web page of interest in order to get any updates on this page automatically without having to go back to that page.
Look at Wikipedia for a complete definition of a web feed,RSS and Atom
The presence of a feed is usually represented by this icon: 
You can subscribe to:
- text (i.e: news from the New York Time),
- videos (i.e: Top favorites on YouTube),
- podcasts (i.e:Talkcrunch)
by copying the url of these feeds on Add new feed in Djinngo (or by adding them through our extension available for download in our tools page.
Anytime you see this icon ,
it means that you can subscribe to the content of the site.
Just click on the icon and copy the url of the RSS feed to your Djinngo Add new feed or add them through our extension available for download in our tools page.