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, …read more

Here’s a good introduction to reading lists (OPML) that I found via The Digitalyst. The article is written by Pito Salas from Blogbridge, a free newsreader.

I’ve been reading more and more about Grazr the last couple of days and it now seems to be open for testing. They got a new version of the grazr.com homepage which links to the blog, a sandbox and a link with instructions for installing it on your own web page. But what does it do? Grazr offers a script with which you are able to import an OPML file and publish the fresh contents on your own site! It works kinda cool and gives you the opportunity to offer a reading list for your visitors.
Other – kinda similar – …read more

A few days ago FeedFiles was launched, created by the same initiators of feed directory & search service Feeds4All.nl and the feed tagging service experiment FeedAlley.com.
FeedFiles is a list with Web feed applications, Services, Scripts, Reading Lists and other Feed related or derived resources. FeedFiles aims to become the largest guide to web feed related tutorials, scripts, code snippets, communities, specifications, components & libraries, feed readers/podcatchers and other software, online services and websites… That’s alotta keywords;)

I was talking with Fred the other night and he told me about “the River of news”. I found it very interesting and now yesterday Dave Winner posted an article on his site about the RSS aggregator he is developing. This aggregator will be a River of News and a descendent of earlier aggregators like My.UserLand.Com and Manilla.
Scoble has the first trackback and explains the river of news approach. It is sorta like a daily newspaper. How do you read a newspaper? You scan it! To make it “scanable” you need an editor who decides what the most important story …read more