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Although the layout is kinda outdated, you should really check Wizag out because the TopicClouds, the TrendGraph and the TopicMap are very interesting to look at!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

The Humanized RSS Reader

admin — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 23:07:34 +0000

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.

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The Humanized RSS Reader

River of News via myFeedz?

admin — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 20:32:31 +0000

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).

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River of News via myFeedz?

FeedBucket

admin — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 12:04:29 +0000

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…

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FeedBucket

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