Megite personal OPML news aggregator

Yesterday, I got an invite from Megite to play around with their new RSS news aggregator. It is very similar in function to memeorandum but they do have one feature I was curious about. When invited, they can generate a personalized page using any OPML file you supply as the “guide”. Check out my personal page, generated for an OPML file that I quickly exported from my Bloglines account.

Of course they need some feedback on their clustering algorithms but the concept is the all important thing. Obvious feedback: load the OPML from a URL I specify in my account settings (they don’t have accounts yet but you know where I’m going here) rather than asking me to manually upload it to them. Then they could update the page root “guide” whenever they wanted (I’m sure they’ve heard that request before).

Less obvious feedback: create a back end that can mash up multiple structured OPML files. With some smart algorithms they might then magically end up with a very smart feed /information grazer.

The web will be truly rocked if services like these start knitting search together with disparate structured OPML files….

Thursday, March 9th, 2006 opml, rss

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