“does anyone of a social feed filter site? a site that takes any feed and filters for the "best of" based on what people read/vote. ”
March 10 at 8:22 pm
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Who would do the voting? The denizens of this hypothetical filter? You could try just dumping the feed in question into digg or reddit's submission queue and seeing which ones get voted up... - ⓞnor
Shyftr offers a "Popular" capability based on # of comments from a group, # of subscriptions, etc. AssetBar may do similar things in the future. - Louis Gray
I've just been annoyed at how noisy some of my feeds are. There are a lot of feeds I would actually follow if they dialed down to 1 post a day rather than 20, like Valleywag. Everyone's got different reading habits for different feeds, so custom feeds make sense. I guess the voting could be done by the users of this service or it could be based on Google Reader Shared Items. - Huy Zing
Or even something like good ol' PageRank, for something as popular as Valleywag, if it were recalculated fast enough. - ⓞnor
Amen, Huy. I've unsubscribed from a ton of feeds that have 20 posts a day. Just can't keep up. I'd love a filter that was perhaps part bayesian, part social-oriented. "Adam, based on what you've chosen to read in the past AND what people with similar tastes [NOT JUST YOUR FRIENDS!] have read, I've selected the three posts from each feed that you're likely to find most interesting." - Adam Lasnik
I wonder if sites aren't missing out by not directly offering low-volume feeds themselves. Everyone's got category feeds (http://www.engadget.com/feeds/ for example), but none of them are ever just "the good stuff". Maybe editors don't like to admit that some of the stuff isn't good stuff, but surely they know what's hot and what's not so much. - ⓞnor
You should try Particls, which allows you to adjust feed intake according to importance. http://particls.com/ - Carla Thompson