Filed under: Social Software, web 2.0
SuggestRSS knows which blogs you should be reading
There's so much good content on the web that even RSS power-users can feel like they're missing something. If you're looking for something fresh to read, you might want to give SuggestRSS a try. It analyzes your feeds and makes recommendations based on data from the hundreds of other people in its database, along with an estimate of the chance that you'll like each suggestion. SuggestRSS uses a tool that you may or may not be familiar with, the OPML file. Serious RSS fiends know that OPML is a list of RSS feeds you subscribe to. You can export an OPML file from most RSS readers, and that's what SuggestRSS looks at to make recommendations. That way it's not tied to any particular reader. As for the results, they're reasonably useful. In my test, I got a good mix of blogs I already knew about and some I'd never heard of.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Vince said 9:31AM on 1-23-2009
... and it's dead
A Database Error Occurred
Error Number: 1053
Server shutdown in progress
SELECT count(DISTINCT xmlUrl) as cnt FROM feeds
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jman said 9:41AM on 1-23-2009
Appears to be rubbishy!!!
Brings out the same RSS's whatever you feed into it!!!!
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Jonathan Christopher said 10:02AM on 1-23-2009
Terribly sorry about the issues SuggestRSS is currently having, I'm waiting to hear back from my host on what's going on under the hood. Again, sorry for the inconveniences!
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