AideRSS – Filter Boring Stuff from your feed subscription
Each day, we start our feed reader and go through our subscriptions seeking something new and interesting. Finally, we end-up wasting more time on reading non-interesting stuff, while missing out the good ones. I just came across AideRSS, a cool service built to help those who are experiencing information overload in their feed readers.
How does it work? AideRSS will continuously monitor RSS feeds for updates, and their “intelligent” PostRank algorithm scores each post based on various statistical factors like trackback/comment counts, del.icio.us, Bloglines and Technorati count. The filtered feed is then re-published, so that you can subscribe using your favorite RSS Reader.
You can set filtering level based on your reading habits. If the filtering level is set too high, you’ll be receiving few stories. If set too low, you’ll be reading more stories from each feed.
This will help you in two ways. First, it’ll helps you save your time and makes you more productive. And, it’ll keep you on the top of the news by delivering only the important news. In other words, it’ll automatically filter out boring content, which otherwise have to be manually filtered out.
Before you start using AideRSS, you must remember that PostRank algorithm depends upon external statistical factors, so it may not work as desired in some occasions. I’ve been using AideRSS on sites like TechCrunch and have been performing satisfactorily so far.
