Streamline Training & Documentation: Help with Aggregation of News and Info on the Web

Friday, January 26, 2007

Help with Aggregation of News and Info on the Web

In the January/February issue of Business 2.0, Om Malik describes several of the currently available websites that spare you the need to visit individual aggregator sites in order to keep up with news and information of particular interest to you.

The "aggregators of aggregators" Malik discusses are:

Doggdot.us — aggregates popular stories from three technology news sites: deli.cio.us, Digg, and Slashdot.

ViralVideos.com — aggregates the most popular videos currently on Break.com, grouper, IFILM, Google Video, metacafe, myspace, Yahoo Video, and YouTube.

Original Signal — aggregates the most popular "signals," i.e., RSS feeds for news, blogs, and video in five categories: the Web (Web 2.0 news, Digg, Web buzz, 15 selected Web-oriented blogs), technology (tech news, Apple, gadgets), world (news, politics, sports, science), business (finance, marketing, Web 2.0 jobs), and entertainment (movies, games, video). To see how the site is organized, click on the link.

Popurls — created by Thomas Marban, a single long page that aggregates RSS feeds from the Web's most popular sites. To see how the page is organized, click on the link.

Spokeo — alerts you whenever there are new posts to the profiles at social networking sites of individuals you've put on your Spokeo friends list. Your list can also include websites, such as favorite blogs, that provide an RSS or Atom feed. Spokeo users can recommend posts that they deem particularly interesting; these posts are automatically displayed on the recommender's friends' pages. The posts that are most recommended are displayed on Spokeo's front page.

VodPod — created by Mark Hall and crew, this site enables you to collect into a personal "pod," favorite videos from any source, including uploads. If you designate your pod as public, anyone can view it and, if you wish, add to it. If you designate the pod as private, only those you specifically invite can view it and add to it.

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Labels: Networking, Web 2.0

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