Did you subscribe to your favorite blogs or sites to get updates through RSS feed. Spectives is an alternative for RSS which also gets updates from your favorite sites visually. Unlike RSS feeds which only provides you with Title and little content update Spectives will get you visually updates like images and titles in the site. This approach is very much interesting and fun exploring updates. An image can tell lot more than words this saying applies well to this site.
When you first visit the site you can see collection of other users on Spectives. It is very easy to create your own collection to start getting visual updates from your favorites. First you need to name a unique collection name and proceed to add favorites. Unlike RSS feeds you need not have to add only RSS feed address of the site you can simply add the site URL.
Spectives will search the site for any feeds and add them to your collection. If a site has more than one feed then it will prompt you to select a feed manually. You can also get suggestions on getting feeds and adding them to your collection. You can pick feed from other users and add them to your collection by doing this you can mix many collections in one and make your collection appear in featured collection listing.
If you do not like to or wish to search others collections you can do it freely on Spectives. It can also be used as a visual news search or to that matter you can search visuals in many categories.
When you have created a collection and added some sites to it. Images in the sites will be updated to your collection so you can browse through them. When a site gets updates like in RSS feeds new images in the sites will be updated in your Spectives collection. You can view images from your favorite sites each images is accompanied with title and when you hover mouse pointer you can read some text of the post.
Clicking on any image will redirect you back to its source such that you can read the post directly in its home site. This approach is the best to use for the users who wish to search content based on images. You can also add other user’s collection as tabs in your account such that you can view their collection easily. The more people add your collection as tab that popular your collection will become and have chance to post in featured collections.
