Streamy is a new site in the digital life aggregator category that I just got an invite to join. I have to say that I am impressed so far. It’s in private beta, but you can request an invite on the home page.

My first impressions of Streamy are wow! It takes the good of Spokeo. Allowing me to add my feeds (one at a time or with an OPML upload), organize them and read them in a variety of layouts. In addition to this it gives me access to friends in which I can share the stories, comment on stories or even just chat with friends with the in window chat box. I can create groups as well. So all the friend interaction is there.

One key item that starts to break streamy out from the pack is the filtering on feeds. I won’t be able to do the service justice by describing it here so at the end of the post I added a webcast introduction that will knock your socks off.

I have to admit that I found the interface less than intuitive at first, but the 4 minutes it took me to watch their webcast introduction cleared it all up and pointed out to me some very exciting features.

No the interface is a little buggy, and somewhat sluggish. So sluggish in Netscape 9 that I switched to using Safari. This sped things up nicely. None of this is unexpected in a beta and certainly no bugs big enough to stop me from using it as my primary aggregator.

Maybe later I will post my thoughts on some next steps that will put this site into a classification of next generation social networks. For now I am just going to enjoy the fact that it is by far the best aggregator that I have tried.