Wizag: the next attention-service

The last months we’ve seen myFeedz, Touchstone and Attensa trying to solve Information Overload. The keyword with these services is Attention and next in line is Wizag. Wizag is an online feedreader that incorporates attention data and semantic analysis in regards to both your feeds and the larger community of Wizag users (Digg stylee). Like Techcrunch writes: “It recommends topics, visualized points of intersection between topics and new feeds based on your interaction with the subscriptions you already have. The implementation is a little slow and it’s nothing pretty to look at, but the technology is interesting… You can tag, comment and vote on any item in your feeds. It’s a shame that this metadata stays inside Wizag, but item ranking, or determining the order that items appear in your reader, is done through an algorithm that incorporates the click-throughs, votes, comments and subscriptions you and other users have gestured with.”

Although the layout is kinda outdated, you should really check Wizag out because the TopicClouds, the TrendGraph and the TopicMap are very interesting to look at!