Check out this Twitter spike around the time that Michael Jackson died courtesy of our internal Spinn3r stats: Apparently, I’m not the only person who noticed this: As the news of Michael Jackson’s fate unfolded, sites around the Web felt the strain of spiking interest. On Twitter, the volume of Jackson-related messages – up to [...]
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Battelle and and Venture Beat cover Hypertext Solutions. Is this competition for Powerset? Hypertext is a secretive Seattle-based startup that says it’s focused on making information on the web more “intelligent.” It comes to light after a publicly traded company, Insightful Corporation, announced it has sold its InFact search technology and other related intellectual property [...]
Tailrank’s custom memetracker support does a pretty good job of helping me filter down my reading list. I’m also using NetNewsWires “sort by attention” feature which is pretty sweet as well.I’m still struggling with the number of RSS feeds I have to read.
Categories: attention,feeds,memetrackers,RSS,tailrank
You have to deal with all the complexities or RSS vs Atom. Y- no having to deal with RSS vs Atom- FAST polling.
Categories: attention,feeds,RSS,syndication,tailrank
NewsGator just release their Online API:It’s been a while in coming…but the NewsGator Online API – the next major piece of the NewsGator platform roadmap – is now online and ready to use…. So if someone is using NewsGator Outlook edition at work, FeedDemon 1.6 or NewsGator Online at home, and you write a cool mobile application (for example), they’ll be able to read the same content and sync with your new application.Looks like you can synchronized read/unread state which means the attention concept should be easy to implement with NewsGator.
Categories: aggregation,attention,blog,blogging,blogs,feeds,newsgator,RSS,syndication,weblog,Weblogs
Mary Hodder just wrote a cool post on using blog link indexing and other metrics to help discover news. This is a topic dear to my heart as I’ve been working on this problem in one form or another (Reptile, NewsMonster, Rojo) for about five years now.
Categories: aggregation,attention,blogs,feedster,RSS,search,syndication,tags,technorati
Nick Bradbury blogs about AttentionTrust.org:Last week saw the launch of AttentionTrust.org, a non-profit hatched by Seth Goldstein, Steve Gillmor and Hank Barry which is “dedicated to promoting the basic rights of attention owners.” I’m honored to be serving on the initial board of AttentionTrust.org, along with Dick Costolo and Clay Shirky.I’ve written about attention before, but I realize it remains a nebulous concept to many folks.
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