myFeedz beta
Today I got an invitation to the private beta for myFeedz.com. myFeedz should be a social newspaper and find what’s important from the sea of information out there and shows you what you need to read. It learns from what you like and helps you keep up with your interests.
I signed up and had the choice to import an OPML file or give a comma separated list of keywords in which I’m interested. Because I couldn’t find a recent OPML file of my feeds I entered some keywords like: RSS, feeds, blogs, whisky and beer. And to my surprise the next page showed a relevant tagcloud of the terms I had just entered, including a list of recent posts about those terms! Shit, this seems to work! Next thing I tried was to further personalize my own homepage with suggested tags and my own feeds, that worked too!
Well, as you might guess my first impression of this service is really good! It just works! They could make some improvements in the layout of the personalized homepage, and the performace is sometimes kinda slow. But hey, this is a beta! I’m gonna try and use it some more and keep you updated!
More on the beta program here.
Tags: Attention, feedreader, myfeedz, opml, RSSRelated Stories
POSTED IN: Attention, Fresh feeding, RSS Readers
1 opinion for myFeedz beta
A Feed Is Born » Wizag: the next attention-service - RSS, Webfeeds and Information Overload!
Jan 8, 2007 at 8:09 pm
[…] 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.” […]
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