http://getluky.net/2004/10/25/a-few-thoughts-about-rss-feed-readers/ Bred for skill in magic. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:41:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://getluky.net/2004/10/25/a-few-thoughts-about-rss-feed-readers/#comment-21 nick Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.getluky.net/wordpress/?p=121#comment-21 <p>RSS readers need to mature beyond the "I am an email client interface that is subscribed to a bunch of feeds" stage. There's a lot of room for NLP and yet-unborn social computing techniques that can make things smarter on the backend so the frontend can be more simplified. Automatic meme aggregation, as you mentioned, is an easy win. Adaptive importance-ranking, new-feed-recommendation discovery, auto-clustering and categorization also come to mind. I can't see what now+5years has to bring... if only I had enough free time to help bring it about...</p> RSS readers need to mature beyond the “I am an email client interface that is subscribed to a bunch of feeds” stage. There’s a lot of room for NLP and yet-unborn social computing techniques that can make things smarter on the backend so the frontend can be more simplified. Automatic meme aggregation, as you mentioned, is an easy win. Adaptive importance-ranking, new-feed-recommendation discovery, auto-clustering and categorization also come to mind. I can’t see what now+5years has to bring… if only I had enough free time to help bring it about…

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