I Wonder Why They Call it Aggrevator?
February 8th, 2005How about an aggregator that runs off of an database so that you can easily search your feeds? Aggrevator will do that and more:
“Aggrevator’s chief distinguishing factor is it’s use of a MySql database to permanently store every entry fetched from every blog you subscribe to. This means that the user can read offline any of the several thousand blogs they’re interested in. Since Aggrevator is written in Java using the SWT library for it’s GUI the user can use it on multiple platforms (I have tested it using Linux and Windows) with a single remote database or on one machine with a local database.
None of the existing desktop aggregators deal well with users who want to subscribe to thousands of feeds (I’m testing it with over 5000 feeds and a database containing over 500, 000 entries). Aggrevator offers those people effective and unobtrusive ways to use scoring to rank the blogs they read. The embedded browser means that the user can easily follow links between individual entries and the application will automatically increase the score of the blogs that are visited. The user can also choose to give a ‘thumbs up’ or ‘thumbs down’ to individual entries. Over time this ’simple’ scoring means that blogs that the user reads often and rates highly float to the top of the list.”
Aggrevator offers the user search functionality which lets them track down entries they have read in the past even if they’re offline. The user also has the option of using the filters as a means of finding a particular blog by typing a minimal set of characters and seeing the list of candidates shrink as they type each character.”
The idea of a searchable aggregator is not new, but the creation of a personalized database from all of the feed entries is (I think) newish. The thumbs up/thumbs down approach reminds me a bit of Findory. Has anyone tried it out yet?