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Filtering RSS Through Your Social Web

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the news-you-can-use dept.

museumpeace writes "Cory Lok assesses the methods, competition and prospects of Rojo, a venture-funded startup RSS aggregator. The brief article is interesting to me because it tries to explain how this and similar uses of a social network harnessed by web search techniques can perform relevance-tuning that will save me from drowning in the tidal wave of blogged newsbits that I find so addicting. They are using a viral marketing approach of spreading membership by invitations from existing members."

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  1. But I have no friends by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You insensitive clod!

  2. Repeat after me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I am addicted to the web if I need rss to manage my daily browsing.
    I am addicted to the web if I need rss to manage my daily browsing.
    I am addicted to the web if I need rss to manage my daily browsing.

    1. Re:Repeat after me by TrippTDF · · Score: 2, Funny

      Am I addicted if I reload /. every five minutes? Does Betty Ford have a program for me?

  3. Investorial? by Tackhead · · Score: 5, Funny
    > Rojo, a venture-funded startup RSS aggregator. [ ... ]a social network harnessed by web search techniques can perform relevance-tuning that will save me from drowning in the tidal wave of blogged newsbits that I find so addicting. They are using a viral marketing approach of spreading membership by invitations from existing members.

    Venture-funded (ding!)
    RSS (ding!)
    aggregator (ding!)
    social network (ding!)
    so addicting (ding!)
    viral marketing (ding!)

    Damn. All I need is "I find Rojo intriguing and I wish to invest in its newsletter to get a Free iPod", and I can yell "BINGO!"

  4. Ah, good by Neil+Blender · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's nice to see that venture capitalists are beginning to drop the ball again. A sure sign of the economy improving.