Personalized Aggregators - Rankings
September 25th, 2004Codey has an interesting thought on aggregators. He wants ranked results:
“There is not a single RSS aggregator which will give me ranked results. This really sucks when you have to skim over thousands of words in a day to satisfy your need for feed. Why would I want ranked results in my aggregator when there are websites like Popdex, Daypop or Technorati? The reason is pretty simple. These sites only crawl and rank popularly linked content. I want something that does the ranking only from the piece of the pie that I consider is important. I want a link or a button on my aggregator which, on clicking, will give me the day’s most talked about link or topic”
I wish I could to this with Feed on Feeds. Right now it defaults to the listing in reverse alphapbetical order for the title of the feed. If it could rank the results somehow, even using the technology of Technoratior, Daypop, or Popdex, that would be fine too. Or, maybe I can just check off which feeds I want to appear first. That would suffice as well. Now that personalized feeds have (almost) hit the mainstream, personalized aggregators won’t be far behind. I hope.