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louisgray.com: louisgray.com: New NoiseRiver App Adds Interest Filters to FriendFeed Stream

  • Joe Dawson · 1 year ago
    Nice I am going to try this out, you know I haven't used the Hide feature yet I must not be subscribed to enough people to warrant it's use. Any repetitive stories I just don't action as they are going to fall off the screen anyway and if it should became a popular debate I would like to read the views!
  • Mark Dykeman · 1 year ago
    Thanks Louis, I think this is worth looking at, even at Alpha stage.
  • directeur · 1 year ago
    Thank you Louis for the article! I really appreciate it ! You should by the way write an about page for NoiseRiver. My English is poor you should have guessed that :)
  • slippylane · 1 year ago
    Heh, your English is better than that spoken by most British teenagers these days Karim.
  • guttertec · 1 year ago
    Thanks Louis - if this is alpha?! What comes next. I knew that APML will get HUGE!
  • directeur · 1 year ago
    Other nice things are in my mind guttertec :) All in all, I confess I made NoiseRiver in less than 10 days --a week mabe.
  • Jeremiah Owyang · 1 year ago
    OH don't hate yourself Louis! How the heck do you find time to blog after having twins?
  • Louis Gray · 1 year ago
    Blogging is good for you. Twins are good for you. They go hand in hand. :-)

    Just got back from the hospital after feeding Sarah again. She's up to 4 pounds, and Matthew is still running the house here. He's doing very well. Makes blogging possible without guilt.
  • slippylane · 1 year ago
    You just wait til they're both up to fighting weights, Louis. :-)
  • slippylane · 1 year ago
    I think that the friendfeed team dropped the ball when they chose popularity ranking instead of keywords and weighting as the content filtering method of choice. Well done to Karim for filling that gap.
  • plightbo · 1 year ago
    For an alternative implementation that is rooted in the same core beliefs that Karim had when he built NoiseRiver, check out my little side project mioNews (http://mionews.com). Instead of rating topics up/down, you rate articles and let the mioNews engine do the rest of the work for you (it works by using auto-tagging). The UI is very very different from NoiseReader - it's closer to Google Reader. I'd love to hear what people think of the two approaches. No matter what, I'm glad to see multiple efforts on solving the noise problem.