About Cullect

“…what exactly does Cullect do? Is it ‘just’ a feed reader? (I bet not…)” - Eric Larson

Eric, you’re right, Cullect.com is not ‘just’ a feed ‘reader’.

Cullect.com is the smartest feed aggregator.
Cullect scans each link in every item in every feed it parses and auto-embeds; images from Flickr, audio from Utterz (and others), video from YouTube (and others), and other linking items.

Also, like all good feed aggregators, Cullect.com presents items in a ‘river of news‘ style. All the items in a Cullect.com reading list (feed aggregation) are viewable 4 different orders;

  1. ‘Important’ - all non-hidden items, ranked by ‘importance’. What’s Important?
  2. ‘Recommended’ - all the items recommended by the Curators of the reading list
  3. ‘Latest’ - reverse chronological of all non-hidden items
  4. ‘Hidden’- reverse chronological of all hidden items

Cullect.com is a feed writer.
Read something interesting, somewhere on Cullect.com? Click the ‘Send to Blog’ link and post to your own blog. Same goes for posting to a Twitter.com or Tumbr.com account.

Cullect.com is a feed share-er.
There are a million way to share what you find in Cullect.com.

  • Each reading list is public by default, so just pass along the url. There’s no need to sign-in or sign-up just to read.
  • There are a million feeds out of Cullect.com; rss, atom, opml. json, yml, m3u, pls. If your favorite feed format isn’t on the list, drop us a line.
  • There are also widgets for embedding in your own website, click the ‘Grab a Widget’ link in any reading list for the embed code.
  • If you’re feeling extra share-y, you can invite others to ‘curate’ your feeds with you. You and the people you trust reading together, hiding uninteresting things, recommending the interesting things. Helping each other raise the signal-to-noise ratio of reading.
  • Cullect even has its own built-in url shortener (think tinyurl.com), called culld.us. Every item you read in Cullect, has a corresponding extra-short 22-character URL, perfect for email and Twitter.

Cullect.com is a feed supporter.
Cullect.com proudly passes along 30-50% of you monthly membership to your favorite blogger, podcaster, Twitterer, or Tumblr. Just specify who you want the money to go to when you join.

Cullect.com was built by Garrick Van Buren and is maintained by Working Pathways.com.