InfoNgen and John Mahoney
John Mahoney of The Digital Edge Blog and co-founder and CTO of Instant Information wrote a post entitled RSS, The Limits Of Scale, And InfoNgen… . And he talks about scalability issues of RSS Readers - ie what to do when the number of feeds you read start to overwhelm you.
In the latter part of the post he introduces InfoNgen:
Our free version of InfoNgen is a new type of web based feed reader. It offers a hybrid widget/headline interface combined with a powerful semantic tagging engine in the backend to let us ‘understand’ what each individual story is about. The basic service comes with a directory of over 15,000 handpicked and organized feeds (and growing). You can turn any of them off that you don’t think are useful to you, and also add any additionals ones you’d like to have. You can also screen feeds by language - the feeds in our directory represent multiple languages and come from sources authored around the globe.
Continuously throughout the day, each individual feed is crawled, and the full text of each story in it is analyzed and classified using a broad yet detailed financial taxonomy. Because we provide these traditionally unstructured sources with rich tagging, you’re able to do a lot more with InfoNgen than just browse through feed headlines or perform basic text searches. [Source]
Obviously, Mahoney is speaking of his or his company’s product. This does not of course minus or take away anything from the product/service. It makes it more interesting. I will test it when I get back home but you might be interested in trying it out you can check it here.
Tell me what you think :)
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