The new feature, known as My Pulse, is powered by Posterous, which means you can auto-share your news finds and curated posts across your social graph.
Pulse created quite a stir when it was first released for the iPad this June. At its heart, Pulse is pretty simple; it's a stylized RSS reader but with a lot less overhead. What makes the app so great (especially on the iPad) is that flipping through stories and feeds takes very little time.
Pulse is now available for Android and iPhone, too, and we really love the app's take on the mobile news-reading experience.
With My Pulse, the app is much more social. You can create you own My Pulse account from inside the app; just give Pulse your name, an e-mail address and your desired username. Every post you "pulse" by tapping on a heart icon is added to your stream.
Your friends can follow your stream either in the app or at username.pulsememe.com. For instance, my feed is at filmgirl.pulsememe.com. This is a Posterous blog, which means you can syndicate content elsewhere and also send items via e-mail.
You can look at a more real-time aggregation of what's happening at Pulse by visiting pulsememe.com.
Pulse lets you have up to 20 different news sources. If you activate My Pulse, you get five more feeds and your own blog. You can search for people in the system or enter their Pulse username to add them to your account.
As before, you can still share articles via e-mail, Twitter, Facebook or Instapaper. However, the great thing about using Posterous is auto-syndication, which you can manage in your settings. Likewise, you can still access a list of feeds from your Google Reader account and add or delete feeds as you please.
Using the My Pulse feature, I really enjoyed seeing what others were sharing and also marking my own favorites. Just as Pulse is a simpler, less top-heavy take on the RSS reader, My Pulse is a cleaner implementation of a linked list.