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Wednesday, January 14, 2004

Adaptive news filter Memigo syndicates RSS feeds from news sites, group forums, blogs, et al. and presents articles thereof to you in a concise format. If this were all, it would be no big deal - just another web-based news aggregator - but Memigo allows you to rate each article and slowly adapts to your news preferences, eventually presenting you with only news addressing your specific interests. You can explicitly rate selections, or just allow Memigo to infer your tastes from tracking click-though behavior. Once it's gathered enough data, the system will also add links to stories which have been highly rated by users with similar reading patterns to yours. The advantage of this over traditional news aggregators is that Memigo might suggest an article from a feed which you might never have heard of, as well as filter out the odd irrelevant article from otherwise dependable feeds.

What's more, Memigo allows you to add you own RSS feed to their database (which I dutifully did), gives you a unique URL for a stripped-down version to facilitate access to top articles from your mobile device(s) (works perfectly with my Treo 600), and even dynamically generates an XML feed of its own for easy integration with whatever aggregator you might currently use. I'm hooked.

Posted by morland @ 03:29 PM

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Fascinating, but dissapointing. Come on Mike. Do you know who spoke this afternoon at the National Press Club?

Hint: A graduate of the College of William and Mary and Georgetown University Law Center,____________ served as an Army officer in Europe before entering the law. He previously served as chief of staff of the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice and in private practice.

Maybe you and your Memigo need to tune a little more towards pressing communications controversies now facing the nation. Your obvious lack of concern for the issues involving copyright law, media conglomerates, legislation on the internet, etc. is disparaging at best.

Posted by: Al on January 14, 2004 08:11 PM

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