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Wizag: the next attention-service

admin — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 21:07:54 +0000

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Although the layout is kinda outdated, you should really check Wizag out because the TopicClouds, the TrendGraph and the TopicMap are very interesting to look at!

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Wizag: the next attention-service

Introduction on OPML and Reading lists

admin — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:49:32 +0000

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.

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Introduction on OPML and Reading lists

Grazr, OPML and sidebar reading lists

admin — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:51:48 +0000

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 – services are the Bitty Browser, OPod and Optimal OPML Browser.

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Grazr, OPML and sidebar reading lists

FeedFiles: feed resource

admin — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 14:23:01 +0000

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;)

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FeedFiles: feed resource

River of news

admin — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 11:14:34 +0000

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 of the day is, and you need journalists that are trained to write in reverse-pyramid style (the important facts of the story are always at the beginning). The River of News works better if there is some kind of “attention” support. So we’re talking about a clever newsreader!

I found newsriver.org but there’s nothing there (yet)?
The first release seems to be available on support.opml.org and runs with the OPML Editor on Windows and Mac OS X. Interesting stuff…

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River of news