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Re: louisgray.com: 10 Suggestions for Google Reader, One Year Later

Riaz Kanani — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:25:00 -0000

the one key item I think you missed was integrated comments - all too often there is interesting commentary in the comments but all too often I miss it.

Re: louisgray.com: 10 Suggestions for Google Reader, One Year Later

Nick Halstead — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:43:00 -0000

1. We do not suggest individual feeds - because we feel suggesting individual content is more important than the whole feed - if our users read a particular post then they can decide to then subscribe to that feed (or in fact to the writer, who may write for more than one blog) - suggesting a feed is less powerful as than one feed may write across a number of topics, our system targets the user with content based upon their attention data - here is mine publicly shared - http://fav.or.it/user/apml/...

2. We do not have any duplicates

3. Negative Keywords - We do not (yet) do negative - but we do have by far
the most powerful keyword filtering - allowing you to filter by one or more
keywords, plus we produce you a cloud/list of keywords that apply to the
content stream that is left after you have filtered it.

4. We have the most powerful share system by far - you can share to twitter /
delicious and to your own library - and without needing to subscribe to any
particular feed.

6. We DO do this, our search engine is based upon the keywords from
the blog and we calculate keywords based upon the post, BUT most
importantly we have 'human powered search' as our community can alter the
keywords if they dont like them. This will become much more powerful as
community expands.

7. Link blog - because of our share system you can share more than one 'library'
you can be as creative as you like, and that library can be shared in a whole
load of different ways.

check out this url - http://fav.or.it/feed/rss/s... - this just a tiny 15 item
library I created over the weekend when demoing the product at startup camp.

8. Again look at this - http://fav.or.it/user/apml/... - you can share yours as well just go to the profile / preferences page to turn it on.

Lastly no one else in the world integrates commenting - commenting is one of the biggest barriers in making the blogosphere easier to understand and use, with integrated commenting we remove this barrier completely.

Re: louisgray.com: 10 Suggestions for Google Reader, One Year Later

Nick Halstead — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:25:00 -0000

fav.or.it does suggest feeds, we are the only service fully supporting APML and have clear graphs showing the captured attention data, plus tag clouds built out of your tags that you read the most,

We then use that data to suggest what stories you should read next, we do not suggest specific feeds (although it would be very easy to do so.) because the content is more important than the specific feed.

To me the quality of the individual posts, ranked by what everyone thinks is much better because even lower level blogs get a chance to get read rather than the usual 'lets all read the top 5% of the blogosphere' syndrome which takes attention away from some fantastic blogs.

Re: louisgray.com: 10 Suggestions for Google Reader, One Year Later

Sebastian — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:56:00 -0000

I'd say #5 was solved by http://newsgang.tagregator....

Re: louisgray.com: 10 Suggestions for Google Reader, One Year Later

Corvida — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:50:00 -0000

Maybe they'll buy up the companies that do all of these things already, then integrate it into Google Reader? Seems to be all the rage to do so...

It's a bit lazy of them though to not have the majority of these features already implemented, but what can you say. They'll do what they want.