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We built http://filr.io http://filr.io for the same purpose. You can follow feeds from various content sources. These feeds could be based on rss or any kind of

We built http://filr.io http://filr.io for the same purpose. You can follow feeds from various content sources. These feeds could be based on rss or any kind of content that changes over time. Everything you read is tracked as read/clicked so that you can search using those filters. Also tagging and creation of own channel(invite only) is allowed. Examples: http://filr.io/channel/hackernews http://filr.io/channel/hackernews http://filr.io/channel/Wikipedia-Picture-of-the-day http://filr.io/channel/Wikipedia-Picture-of-the-day http://filr.io/channel/imdb-posters http://filr.io/channel/imdb-posters

mwilcox 12y ago
With all these different ways of doing it, we're going to need some sort of syndication. It would need to be really simple though.
- rgrieselhuber 12y ago
  Maybe we could use XML as a standard format.
- StavrosK 12y ago
  Really simple syndication? Impossible.
- pulkitanand 12y ago
  The problem with RSS is that the publisher needs to support it, and quite a few are actively moving away from it. For example, Wikipedia Picture of the Day RSS feeds don't work anymore: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Press_releases/Picture_of_the_Day_RSS https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Press_releases/Pi... Also, considering the "fire-hose" nature of typical RSS feeds, there needs to be an intelligent layer that sits between it and the user for it to be useful.
  - mcovey 12y ago
    > considering the "fire-hose" nature of typical RSS feeds, there needs to be an intelligent layer that sits between it and the user for it to be useful. I have to disagree with that, I enjoy my RSS feeds uncensored, if a feed has too low of a signal to noise ratio then I unsubscribe. I have a few of my own filters set up in InoReader for stuff that I'm absolutely sick of hearing about, but none if it is filtered for me "intelligently". There are plenty of services built on top of RSS that do filter and remix the content already, however.
  - steanne 12y ago
    newsblur has trainable filters.

mwilcox 12y ago

With all these different ways of doing it, we're going to need some sort of syndication. It would need to be really simple though.

rgrieselhuber 12y ago
Maybe we could use XML as a standard format.
StavrosK 12y ago
Really simple syndication? Impossible.
pulkitanand 12y ago
The problem with RSS is that the publisher needs to support it, and quite a few are actively moving away from it. For example, Wikipedia Picture of the Day RSS feeds don't work anymore: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Press_releases/Picture_of_the_Day_RSS https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Press_releases/Pi... Also, considering the "fire-hose" nature of typical RSS feeds, there needs to be an intelligent layer that sits between it and the user for it to be useful.
- mcovey 12y ago
  > considering the "fire-hose" nature of typical RSS feeds, there needs to be an intelligent layer that sits between it and the user for it to be useful. I have to disagree with that, I enjoy my RSS feeds uncensored, if a feed has too low of a signal to noise ratio then I unsubscribe. I have a few of my own filters set up in InoReader for stuff that I'm absolutely sick of hearing about, but none if it is filtered for me "intelligently". There are plenty of services built on top of RSS that do filter and remix the content already, however.
- steanne 12y ago
  newsblur has trainable filters.