Today, Richard MacManus placed favit, together with the light blogging platforms tumblr and posterous, in the People Curated section of his Top Tools For Tracking Topics on the Web mash up.

favit covers the entire lightblogging spectrum by providing the necessary environment and tools for both content creation and content promotion, utilizing its two-way twitter & facebook integration.

Better yet, thanks to the favit statistics module, you can also learn about your readers and their behavior.

The lightblogging part of favit described above is just a small piece of the favit potential and abilities.

In this post I would like to digg deeper in Richard’s article and show you how you can use favit as a tool to track topics and trends on the web:

The numbers from the screenshot correspond to three ways favit allows its users to monitor things they can’t afford missing, even when browsing the latest stuff from their lifestream and subscriptions.

1. This one is my personal favorite and it’s called the global favit filter – it  tracks many topics simultaneously and allows selection of the monitored sources.
2. The favit saved searches – anytime a search is made on favit it can be saved and then efficiently monitored.
3. The search section in the activity monitor panel – keeps track of recent searches and provides updates on  them.

The above position favit as a destination service for your tracking needs – this means that you will have to visit favit in order to find the results you need. Emphasis is also put on making favit a feed service – the rss feed from the search results is a good example of this.

Related:

Another post inspired by the RWW team: Sharing is caring in the feeds world too

RWW for favit in its “The Real-Time Web and its Future” report – “It blew our minds“

The “Real-Time Web and Its Future” is a comprehensive report with more than 50 inspiring interviews of companies, developers and executives venturing into the field of building real-time web applications.
The ReadWriteWeb’s lead writer and editor of the report –
Marshall Kirkpatrick combined also more than 300 insights from the  Real-Time Web Summit in October this year. The result is a must-read piece of inspiration and shared knowledge.

Favit.com is proudly listed in the “Real-Time Web and Its Future” report. We are extremely grateful and happy that our effort of building something unique and useful have been recognized and spread from such a high level:

Favit.com does a whole lot in one stream-reading client – so much that the user might take a little  while to get comfortable with the tool. It recommends Twitter and Favit users to follow. It does major and minor filter creation:

• minor filters are for keywords over feeds that you’re subscribed to, and a
• major filter is just a big button at the top of your screen that you press to turn a global filter on or off.

It recommends filtered collections of blogs assembled by other users with similar interests. It’s amazing.

Get the full report at: ReadWriteWeb.com/Reports