Re:Rest in Peace, RSS
by tlrobinson on Wednesday May 06, 2009 @03:24AM
(#595370)
Following up on that...
I'd like an intelligent RSS reader that aggregated information from various social sites to tell me which posts are worth reading, preferably normalized based on the number of readers, so I don't get a zillion Engadget posts and zero niche blogs.
The data could come from links from my friends on Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, Delicious, etc (after following shortened URL redirects, of course. sigh), top posts on social news sites I read (namely Hacker News and the various sub-Reddits I'm subscribed to), etc.
It would cross-reference all that data with the RSS feeds I'm actually subscribed to, and present me with ranked list of unread articles, so I can read through the best articles first, and ignore the rest if I don't have time.
Separately it could suggest a few other articles on sites I'm not subscribed to, but might be interested in, also based on all of the above data.
Ideally it would be be "passive", not requiring manual interaction to "train" it, other than looking at my subscribed feeds. If there were some more advanced "learning" aspect to it, it could heavily weight my own actions on social sites, i.e. voting up articles on social news sites, linking to articles, etc.
I'd like an intelligent RSS reader that aggregated information from various social sites to tell me which posts are worth reading, preferably normalized based on the number of readers, so I don't get a zillion Engadget posts and zero niche blogs.
The data could come from links from my friends on Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, Delicious, etc (after following shortened URL redirects, of course. sigh), top posts on social news sites I read (namely Hacker News and the various sub-Reddits I'm subscribed to), etc.
It would cross-reference all that data with the RSS feeds I'm actually subscribed to, and present me with ranked list of unread articles, so I can read through the best articles first, and ignore the rest if I don't have time.
Separately it could suggest a few other articles on sites I'm not subscribed to, but might be interested in, also based on all of the above data.
Ideally it would be be "passive", not requiring manual interaction to "train" it, other than looking at my subscribed feeds. If there were some more advanced "learning" aspect to it, it could heavily weight my own actions on social sites, i.e. voting up articles on social news sites, linking to articles, etc.