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Filtering RSS Through Your Social Web

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. I want Ceren in my social web! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    IMPORTANT UPDATE: Please show your support for Ceren in this poll of Geek Babes!

    Is it any wonder people think Linux users are a bunch of flaming homosexuals when its fronted by obviously gay losers like these?! BSD has a mascot who leaves us in no doubt that this is the OS for real men! If Linux had more hot chicks and gorgeous babes then maybe it would be able to compete with BSD! Hell this girl should be a model!

    Linux is a joke as long as it continues to lack sexy girls like her! I mean just look at this girl! Doesn't she excite you? I know this little hottie puts me in need of a cold shower! This guy looks like he is about to cream his pants standing next to such a fox. As you can see, no man can resist this sexy little minx. Don't you wish the guy in this pic was you? Are you telling me you wouldn't like to get your hands on this ass?! Wouldn't this just make your Christmas?! Yes doctor, this uber babe definitely gets my pulse racing! Oh how I envy the lucky girl in this shot! Linux has nothing that can possibly compete. Come on, you must admit she is better than an overweight penguin or a gay looking goat! Wouldn't this be more liklely to influence your choice of OS?

    With sexy chicks like the lovely Ceren you could have people queuing up to buy open source products. Could you really refuse to buy a copy of BSD if she told you to? Personally I know I would give my right arm to get this close to such a divine beauty!

    Don't be a fag! Join the campaign for more cute open source babes today!

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  2. HolyBabble(tm) Presents the Songs of Luke by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as were necessary. And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria sailing into Italy; and he put us therein. And when we had launched from thence, we sailed under Cyprus, because the winds were contrary. And when we had sailed over the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Ptolemais, and saluted the brethren, and abode with them one day. And the next day we touched at Sidon. And Julius courteously entreated Paul, and gave him Isaac. And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave them into your hand, that ye might do them in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him. And I looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and he asked them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Go to, go, and I will cut off the names of the children of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the heads of the fathers of the children of Manasseh by their families; for the children of Shechem, and for the female ten shekels. But if he be poorer than thy estimation, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the LORD shall carry thee whither I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me: but I thy servant fear the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be to you for a testimony. Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer: For I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will give all Judah into the hand of the Philistines. Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, saying, Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and well with the flocks; and bring me word again, that I may send and fetch him. And it came to pass afterward, that David's heart smote him, because he had taken his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their hinder parts were inward. And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it round about there were knops compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen were cast, when it was in building. The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the altar of incense, And the altar of burnt offering, with his brasen grate, his staves, and all his household after him. And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king my father brought out of Jewry? I have even heard of thee, that is, the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the Son of God, God will give it thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath. And, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God, to observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and slew him. And the king said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the whole house of Israel, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his possession in their cities, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the Jews, slew they; but on the spoil laid they not their hand. But the other Jews that were in the four feet thereof. Over against the border were the rings, the places for the staves to bear the table. And he made an hundred basons of