The Ultra Gleeper
February 16th, 2005The Ultra Gleeper - From the site:
“The Ultra Gleeper takes your weblog subscription list and starts from there. It crawls the web for things you haven’t seen and shows you the pages it thinks you’ll like. Your feedback improves its ability to give accurate ratings. With the Ultra Gleeper can find new pages and new weblogs to read. And if you have your own weblog or use del.icio.us, the links you post there will be automatically turned into ratings.”
“The Ultra Gleeper solves or avoids the problems that give recommendation engines a bad reputation. It won’t give you a lot of links you’ve already seen, because it knows about your subscriptions and what they’ve posted. It won’t just recap the most popular links of the day, because its indie rock algorithm distrusts excessive popularity. It won’t ask you for a lot of calibration ratings up front: you already gave those ratings by telling it what you subscribe to and pointing it to your weblog and/or bookmark page.”
There are lots of tools out these days that purport to “recommend” new content based on what you read. Consider it a form of reader’s advisory for the weblog world. Their incorporation into Feed on Feeds looks interesting. If this interests you, take a look at the paper which outlines the project. (link via Waxy)
