The Feed Filter wars begin: Adobe, Yahoo, Google Reader, Bloglines. (and what I want as a user)

Categories: Social Media, Syndication, Web ToolsPosted on February 18th, 2007

I’m pleased to see that Adobe has moved closer to creating internet applications in addition to their amazing web suites. myFeedz was launched and is a filter. Yahoo launched their filter called Pipes a few weeks ago, (as I remember the antiquated myYahoo) which I’m starting to see a few examples emerge here and there, such as this interesting feed of Upcoming events of a trusted network

I'm not going to join either Pipes or MyFeedz until I start hearing more voices in my trusted network having success with it (that's my trick by the way, I'm a second generation adopter with new technology, I let the first adopters try it out).

I'm curious however, aside from the interesting interface and tagcloud, what's the strategic benefit of myFeedz? I can do a keyword query in bloglines by IAC, what benefit does myFeedz offer in addition to that?

I use Google Reader most of the time, (you can see my shared feed) and see a tremendous amount of opportunity, which I’m sure the Reader team is already working on.

Here’s my ultimate reader:

I enjoy the Google Reader interface, the hotkeys make it easy to scream through content (Scoble taught me some tricks) , keep the sharing ability.

Quantify and highlight multiple entries and keywords: Sometimes I see duplicate items come through my feedreader, those items should be somehow indicated they are ‘hot’

Intelligently look for other feeds that show similar characteristics from my trusted network (that may be hard to figure out)

Intelligently learn how to filter out the junk, look for patterns

Never show ads, even if embedded in the posts.

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I’m checking out myFeedz. After tinkering with it for half hour (site is horribly slow) I still can’t get it to see articles in any of the rss feeds I added to it under personalize:feeds. The UI could use a little help, but perhaps my frustration level would be less if speed was better. Lots of AJAX + slow = bad experience. My bandwith for other sites is fine. After adding all the rss feeds, it dumped my selections into a “myFeedz temporary category”, but I don’t know where to go to edit categories, if you can. I’ll let it digest things for a while before passing final verdict.

Posted by brian on February 18th, 2007 at 11:20 am

Brian, it’s good to hear from you, let us know your outcome.

Posted by jeremiah_owyang on February 18th, 2007 at 2:27 pm

You forgot Touchstone!

But filtering is so 5 years ago

http://www.touchstonelive.com/blog/2006/12/filtering-is-so-5-years-ago.html

Posted by Chris Saad on February 18th, 2007 at 3:06 pm

I got an email from myFeeds (looks automated)6 hours after I registered and added my feeds. It says, “Recently, you added an OPML or some feeds to your myFeedz account. This is a reminder to let you know that they have been processed and everything is ok.”. I went back to the site, still slow, and everything is the same. When I check out a tag for toffee, it comes up with nothing but suggests I “consider adding some feeds to your profile if you think they are related to ‘toffee’.” Well, I did, and my feeds are loaded w/toffee, believe me. Still shows the temporary category, too.

Posted by brian on February 18th, 2007 at 10:57 pm

This many years in, and feed readers are all still a mixed-bag geeky-dork jumble. Some revolution. I want Pointcast 2007.

Posted by Christopher Coulter on February 19th, 2007 at 12:13 am

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