Comments on: Google Reader - contender for the online aggregator throne? http://damieng.com/blog/2006/10/08/google-reader-2 A .NET developer in Redmond Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:36:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Damien Guard http://damieng.com/blog/2006/10/08/google-reader-2#comment-1638 Damien Guard Wed, 11 Oct 2006 03:58:03 +0000 http://damieng.com/blog/archive/2006/10/08/google-reader-2.aspx#comment-1638 One of the directions online readers are going is the ability to rate/tag/star posts you liked or enjoyed.<br /><br />I'm hoping that a combination of this rating, tags and perhaps being able to associate your interests with other users will hopefully take us one step close to the "Smart Agent" technology we were promised many years ago.<br /><br />[)amien One of the directions online readers are going is the ability to rate/tag/star posts you liked or enjoyed.

I'm hoping that a combination of this rating, tags and perhaps being able to associate your interests with other users will hopefully take us one step close to the "Smart Agent" technology we were promised many years ago.

[)amien

]]> By: Steve http://damieng.com/blog/2006/10/08/google-reader-2#comment-1637 Steve Tue, 10 Oct 2006 19:50:23 +0000 http://damieng.com/blog/archive/2006/10/08/google-reader-2.aspx#comment-1637 Cool, I've been using Google Reader for a while, but just as a simple<br />box in my personalised Google page rather than the full interface - I<br />didn't mention it when I read your Rojo post since I figured if you used<br />that, you had more sophisticated needs.<br /><br />My needs are simple because I don't subscribe to that many feeds - I<br />don't have the time in the day to keep up with that many sites and too<br />many feeds soon becomes a choking avalanche, even with a 'clever' tool -<br />simply because no tool is yet capable of filtering out 'uninteresting'<br />stories. What I really need is someone to read the news for me and pick<br />out the best stuff ;) Cool, I've been using Google Reader for a while, but just as a simple
box in my personalised Google page rather than the full interface - I
didn't mention it when I read your Rojo post since I figured if you used
that, you had more sophisticated needs.

My needs are simple because I don't subscribe to that many feeds - I
don't have the time in the day to keep up with that many sites and too
many feeds soon becomes a choking avalanche, even with a 'clever' tool -
simply because no tool is yet capable of filtering out 'uninteresting'
stories. What I really need is someone to read the news for me and pick
out the best stuff ;)

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