Comments on: what i want in an RSS tool

By: Curiosity is bliss

Curiosity is bliss — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 13:33:11 +0000

Using friends as filters

How often do friends send links to you via IM or email? How often do think about a friend when you stumble on an interesting web page and want to share it with him? Friends can act as great filters, by picking the stuff they know is relevant to you. Th…

By: Mopsos

Mopsos — Sat, 15 May 2004 09:58:06 +0000

Managing attention on blogs

apophenia: what i want in an RSS tool through Seb If anyone wants to know why the early players get all of the attention, it’s because RSS feeds focus on people, not ideas, and the early players are too overloaded…

By: dan phillips

dan phillips — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 03:11:41 +0000

we have built a software tool that allows anyone to create public or private boards – invite registered users to contribute or to be comment(ators) and then to join either people (get their ideas) and/or join ideas (get comments on ideas too). the things you join get put into your private space and can also be sent to you either as an email or as a text message. adding rss feeds to this isn’t really that hard. we have had the service running as a private trial in a large telco for a while. i love getting things sent to me from people i have joined but their is little or no activity from other users. haven’t worked out the answer yet!

By: dan phillips

dan phillips — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 03:11:24 +0000

By: Aalia Wayfare's Radio Weblog

Aalia Wayfare's Radio Weblog — Tue, 09 Mar 2004 18:08:44 +0000

Combining RSS, OPML and FOAF for feed searching – who’s going to do it first?

Yesterday I was reading

By: Lawrence Krubner

Lawrence Krubner — Mon, 08 Mar 2004 17:14:07 +0000

I take it bloglines is taking the centralized server approach? Do they actively go out looking for blogs? I just went and looked, they seem to only be tracking 90,000 blogs. Out of an estimated 3,000,000? Assuming that 90% of the 3 million blogs don’t see much use, that means the core of the blogosphere is 300,000 very active blogs. To watch only 30% of the core, and none of the periphery, seems like pretty weak coverage, but that seems to be what bloglines is doing. I take it the sign up is voluntary? That doesn’t seem like a plan for getting it done. It seems like either MT needs to expand what info can get past through trackbacks or Dave Winer needs to expand what info can be passed to the “Recently posted” page at http://www.weblogs.com. Those are the two quickest routes to reaching a space where some of what Boyd is talking about would be possible.

Of course I’m open to other ideas.

By: the iCite net development blog

the iCite net development blog — Mon, 08 Mar 2004 14:42:34 +0000

RSS *readers* should serve, not just client, says I

organize redundancy to provide both much more fully collapsed (aggregate) and much more fully exploded (multi-faceted) context-views of information (and, also, as a social network, the people / groups related by information)

By: Manish Jethani

Manish Jethani — Mon, 08 Mar 2004 12:29:08 +0000

I agree with you. Bloglines has a feature for “saving a search”. So you search all blogs for a topic and then save it. The next time you want to find entries on that topic, just click on the search link. Now, I think they also give you RSS feeds of the searches, and *that* is interesting. Even if they don’t (since I’m not sure), Bloglines is basically a feed reader so the “saved search” pretty much serves the purpose. Worth evaluating. (I’m in no way affiliated with Bloglines.)

By: xian

xian — Mon, 08 Mar 2004 09:30:46 +0000

I’ve never used it myself, but my impression is that k-collector offers many of the features you are looking for.

By: Aalia Wayfare's Radio Weblog

Aalia Wayfare's Radio Weblog — Sun, 07 Mar 2004 18:14:07 +0000

Jyte – new searchable RSS aggregator

I’ve just been enjoying test driving Jyte