Over the course of the past few years, I’ve found myself spending a lot less time on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. In contrast to popular opinion, I feel like they tend to enhance existing social relationships as opposed to being a replacement for them.

Even though I spend less time with them, I do acknowledge that they are good at keeping me up to date with news and projects that I wouldn’t have otherwise been made aware of. For me, it’s the the links people post that tend to be much more interesting than the comments. This observation, coupled with an interest in saving myself the time of visiting every link that passes through my Twitter and RSS feeds that might be interesting, has resulted in Feedabot.

Feedabot is simple. It monitors feeds (RSS, Twitter, etc.) and looks for links. When it finds a link, it renders and image of it, and places that image on the site. This provides me with additional information about whether or not it’s worth my time to visit any given link that passes through my feeds. Pages are marked when read, and can be placed into groups. Groups can be made public by adding some additional metadata (image, description, and title). I’ve created a few sets in my account here as an example.

While the current list of feeds that Feedabot monitors is fixed, Feedabot users are allowed to submit their own URLs that will be rendered and added to their profile. These can then be added to groups or sets.

Feedabot is a work in progress. It’s growing every day, and could benefit from some additional users. If you’d like to give it a try, send us an email and we’ll create you an account. If you’ve got feeds (Twitter lists, RSS, etc.) that you think would make a great addition to the current set, feel free to suggest one.