Comments on: Information Aggregators

By: T

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 02:28:55 +0000

Off topic to your content a bit, but it might help people who come across this page looking for something else. Information Aggregators are useful in research driven projects as well, the Census being one of the best examples.

It would be interesting to have a Census like search engine that pulls information from the web for research based projects where quantitative data is needed.

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By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:33:30 +0000

“Where are the programming languages that have Bayesian filters, PageRank, and other types of collective intelligence as a central, core part of the language?”

This is a fascinating idea that hadn’t occurred to me at all. Instead of open source, we need open crowd-source! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing)

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By: Michael Nielsen

Michael Nielsen — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 20:53:44 +0000

DM,

Integrating comments in a more friction-free way would be terrific, especially if it became possible to contribute content (i.e., post comments, not just read) from the aggregators. I gather that there are efforts in this direction, but the main players still seem stuck with kludges.

(More generally, the ability to post content is a very useful add-on for any aggregator.)

By: Michael Nielsen

Michael Nielsen — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 20:50:35 +0000

Hi Mohan,

I’ll be interested to see how Twine goes when it is released. There’s certainly been a fair bit of hype about Semantic Web stuff, but it always seems to have languished.

And thanks for the link to the Tech Review!

By: mohan

mohan — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 18:32:37 +0000

Hi Mike,
Nice post.
Check out: Radar Networks’ Twine (http://www.twine.com/), it has the potential to be a powerful information aggregator. They’re releasing a beta soon, and I can’t wait to try it.

Also see: http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/19627/

By: DM

DM — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 13:00:32 +0000

This is slightly off-topic (but there are really three posts in this one anyway). One major thing that aggregators are missing is the ability to keep track of comments per post (ideally threaded, although that is also a major limitation of blog software). For instance, it's possible to get an RSS feed for all the comments on your blog, but it's impossible to have the aggregator present them nicely to me together with the blog post, and let me know when new ones are posted for the entries I care about. There is already a standard developing for threading for Atom (see RFC 4685), but until common aggregators support it, it's not going to get going. For me personally (as I suspect for many other people), it's the single greatest obstacle for following conversations in the comments on most blogs. It's also coincidentally one of the things that NNTP readers did spectacularly well back when USENET was the main game in town.