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

The Humanized Reader is a “River of News”-style RSS aggregator that looks like a blog. Great idea and it sure looks good! Like Steve Rubel writes: It’s intuitive.

myFeedz (”The social newspaper”) is a new Web 2.0 application that keeps an eye on topics you are interested in and also suggests fresh content based on your reading habits. It is still in private Beta (what’s not nowadays?) and should show the news based on topics you identify, your reading list or even an OPML file. A public release is expected soon and sounds a lot like Findory, Rojo and Tailrank (via micropersuasion.com).

Another new(?) reader; FeedBucket provides a quick and easy way to view RSS. No need for a technical background — just enter an address to view the headlines. Registered users can store several feeds and view each feed individually or all of the recent top headlines at a glance in a “River of News” format…

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