Comments on: I Need A News Feed For My News Feeds

By: TopGearStreaming

TopGearStreaming — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:09:50 +0000

thank you for the tips

By: TopGearStreaming

TopGearStreaming — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 02:36:21 +0000

thank you for the tips

By: deva_hazari2084

deva_hazari2084 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:51 +0000

Brad, for those readers of yours who are Outlook users, we've created a way to address some of those problems. Here's how we described it on our company blog:

http://blog.clearcontext.com/2008/03/new-release-...

"The current IMS Dashboard is focused on projects. But lots of emails that clog up your inbox are notifications of some sort that can be analyzed, processed, and organized for you automatically. We don’t think you should have to manually process all the social networking requests, log file reports, corporate announcements or various other types of status and notification emails that arrive every day. We’ve developed another type of dashboard to automatically manage this sort of processing."

Anyone interested should sign up for our new beta. And any companies interested in having their notifications automatically processed in an intelligent manner should give us a yell too.

I also wrote a response to Michael's post: http://www.emaildashboard.com/2008/03/hi-techcrun...

By: Dave Winer

Dave Winer — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:51 +0000

It's hard to tell but I think you want reading lists, a dynamic list of freeds that your aggregator subscribes to and as the contents of the feed changes you get input from different RSS feeds. It's usually done in OPML although you could certainly invent a new format for this. The advantage of using OPML is that all aggregators already have the ability to read and write it. The only change (and it could be major depending on how the software is architected) is that the OPML is dynamic now, not imported once, but re-read each time the aggregator scans.

All my tools support reading lists, the NewsRiver aggregator and the Podcatcher I'm building in FlickrFan (and FlickrFan itself).

You can read about it on Scripting News, I've been evangelizing this stuff for years.

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ascripting.c...

Dave

By: bernard lunn

bernard lunn — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:51 +0000

Sounds like a semantic filter that feeds into a spreadsheet with real time updates, so you can pivot and list order as you like. Thats what thousands of traders do and they have been wrestling with this firehose stuff for decades and with lots at stak.

By: Jevon MacDonald

Jevon MacDonald — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:51 +0000

I wrote about some of the problems with lifestreaming apps today as well., namely that right now they are just serving to create more noise, not to provide a way to cut down on the noise.

http://socialwrite.com/2008/03/23/lifestreaming-a...

By: bfeld

bfeld — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:51 +0000

Deva – you are right on the mark from an Outlook perspective. We played around with some of this with a company called Nemeo (which was acquired by Postini in 2001) and never got very far. It's clearly coming around again and based on what I've seen Clearcontext do so far, it's definitely on the right track.

By: John May

John May — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:51 +0000

I think one of Rally's customers is focused on this. http://www.ripl.com

By: bahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

bahhhhhhhhhhhhhh — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:51 +0000

What Dave Winer means to say is “the advantage of using OPML is that I invented it” bahhhhhhhhhhhhhh, sorry I need to puke up again

By: B2

B2 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:51 +0000

Brad, you've probably posted about this before, but what do you use as your client for reading RSS feeds?