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  directeur

  1 year ago

  Hum... this is a little bit unfair. Everyone seems to be able to write *better* blog posts than me :)
  
  Seriously, thank you so much for the review of NoiseRiver, I really appreciate all your nice words about it. Actually like said in the home page, this app is still alpha an to be franc, I made it in about a week. Lots of things are to add/fix/invent... It was a real joy for me to develop it, and as you said, I wish the API was "larger"... but, heh, like french people say: "On fait ce qu'on peut avec ce qu'on a " (we do what we can with what he have" :)
  
  Again thanks for the review and the link to the room on FriendFeed. Any suggestion, critic, error reporting or rant is really welcome :)
  
  P.S. I'm one of your reader, btw, so keep up the good work! I enjoy it :)
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  plightbo

  1 year ago

  NoiseRiver is definitely on the right track. I just left a comment at Karim's blog, but I wanted to also share my take on how to cut through the noise: http://mionews.com. It's also based on FriendFeed, but the UI is very different. It takes a reader-style UI approach and introduces a couple of additional concepts:
  
  * You can "hate" articles. This is instead of "hating" topics. In the background, we auto-tag articles and therefore automatically adjust the scores for various topics for you.
  * You can't adjust the like/hate score for individual topics, but you can track topics and see which stories match those topics.
  * Unrelated to the relevance ranking, there are some different UI things going on compared to FF and NR. Grouping friends in to folders may turn out to be a good way to keep track of close friends despite other noise-makers (ie: Scoble).
  
  It'll be interesting to compare the output of the two different relevance techniques as time goes on.
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  Rishabh Mishra (possible248)

  1 year ago

  mionews.com actually looks pretty interesting. I'll put it on my list of posts that I may get to in the future.
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