April 23, 2006

“authority aggregator”

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A client of mine needs something built.
Basically, it’s an “authority aggregator” like Memeorandum, Megite, Tailrank etc.
But instead of it being about tech or politics or whatever, it aggregates stories specifically pertaining to my client’s industry, identifies the most authoritative stories from the most authoratative sources, and then posts them online in simple, aggregated form.
So if you think you can help and could use some business, please drop me an e-mail. Thanks.

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7 Responses to ““authority aggregator””

  1. Daniel says:

    Trying again then to comment :) Very nice work, very nice indeed. Have a nice day!

  2. Ken Dyck says:

    I tend to use del.icio.us/popular/whatever for that sort of think. Perhaps not ideal, but it’s a quick, cheap, and easy solution.

  3. aaron says:

    We’ve built such a thing and you can use it for free at eyeout.com. Create a Smart Feed and train it with feedback. So the user gets to decide what the meaning of ‘authority’ is. It publishes over RSS automatically or manually.

  4. Our product Leiki Focus can be used for this (www.leiki.com). We use an IPTC-based ontology with 20k categories for dynamic news tracking with existing customers including business newspapers such as Financial Times and content aggregating portals like Sina.com.

  5. Frank Gruber says:

    Topix.net is good suggestion by Gabe. Or you could drop Matthew Chen of Megite.com a note.

  6. Jon Husband says:

    I’ve got a colleague who built TalkDigger (www.talkdigger.com), and I’ve sent him this blogpost ….