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I also toyed with an idea like this at some point, but it seemed to me that aggregating the big 4 or 5 aggregators is unnecessary, while aggregating much more t
by dood 19y ago
I also toyed with an idea like this at some point, but it seemed to me that aggregating the big 4 or 5 aggregators is unnecessary, while aggregating much more than that (something like Techmeme but broad-based?) takes you into Google/Technorati territory, fairly large scale processing and intensive ML stuff. There are also quite a few RSS-filtering/recommending startups out there already.
I do have the feeling there is an angle I was missing though, and I'd be glad to be proved wrong!
- gsiener 19y agoMy main thought is that those solutions aren't really creating a dialog. Sure they're bring users to that site, but it seems hard to connect all the different discussion points with an event. A great example would be the drama this summer over PG's comments re: age, or all the hoopla around twitter's scaling issues.
- dood 19y agoAh yes, somehow integrating scattered networks of conversation around distinct, emerging topics, that's a good angle (though at its simplest, a lot like a meta-techmeme?). Sounds like a lot of hard work to get it right, I too wish I had time to play around with the idea some more. I think one approach I considered was something like digg or reddit, but where user input is geared toward collecting, connecting and filtering around 'stories'. Defining what a story is, and where one beings and another ends is the fun part, though I suppose in the extreme cases quite doable. I wonder if something like this could be built in a kinda of open source like way - make a wiki or something for ideas how to solve the problem, see if anyone wants to work on it, maybe use a pledge thing to raise money for servers when that starts to matter, that sort of thing... but that's another post.