Feeds 2.0

“It is the best of times…”

feeds2 — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 22:30:10 +0000

Well,

It’s been quite a while since we published a new post in this blog. Not because we did not have anything new to say or because there were no interesting developments. In fact, so many things have happened all this time (time well spent though, as you will soon find out) that I really don’t know from where to start.

What can I say?

…you can read all about it here and here…

Feeds 2.0 vs FeedHub

feeds2 — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 10:49:20 +0000

FeedHub has launched its personalized feed and recommendation product at the 2007 DEMOfall Conference. It creates a personalized RSS feed from you reading list and intelligently displays the most relevant posts.

With FeedHub, you can import your feed reading list (RSS feeds in an OPML format) and FeedHub produces a personalized feed from it. The feed can then be imported into your favorite feed reader.

Here’s how you can do exactly the same with Feeds 2.0 (if my memory serves me right, I believe that we implemented this feature more than a year ago):

a) Import your OPML list

b) Select “All posts” and then just copy the URL of the RSS icon.

c) Import your Feeds 2.0 (re-mixed and personalized) feed by pasting the above URL to your favorite feed reader. For this example I will import my personalized feed to GReader.

d) Enjoy and save time browsing your feeds.

However I like the fact that FeedHub leverages a combination between active human inputs and machine learning. It creates memes from popular bookmarking services like (Digg and Delicious) to identify articles by topic or category and is supposed to automatically discover new memes and based on the previous items a user interacted with. It strongly reminds me of the very interesting Ilya Grigorik’s aideRSS principles.

P.S. Ooops, I guess that from my personalized feed list above you can easily see what we’ve been up to recently

Greece on Fire (day 2)

feeds2 — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 17:35:17 +0000

The disaster continues…

Greece in a state of emergency

feeds2 — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 22:25:07 +0000

The Greek government today declared the entire country in a state of emergency after raging and uncontrollable forest fires killed at least 50 people so far.

Very hard and sad times for all of us…

More News Coverage

feeds2 — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:24:00 +0000

The latest issue of the Hellenic Center for Investment (ELKE) newsletter features an interview with our CEO on Feeds 2.0 and its future directions. You may check it out here.

Feeds 2.0 featured in Greece’s #1 Circulation Sunday Newspaper

feeds2 — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 14:38:52 +0000

Today Feeds 2.0 is featured in “Proto Thema”, Greece’s #1 Sunday Newspaper in terms of official Sunday Newspapers circulation stats. The newspaper features an interview with our CEO Dr Nicholas Ampazis on the occasion of the first businness plan award that we received on the 8th International Venture Capital Forum which took place two weeks ago in Athens, Greece.

The inteview is in Greek but we hope to be able to provide a translated transcript in English very soon, here in our blog.

Congratulations Nicholas!

The Feeds 2.0 team

Maintenance Completed Successfully

feeds2 — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:25:47 +0000

Site is now back to normal after the successful completion of the database updating.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

The Feeds 2.0 team

Scheduled Maintenance

feeds2 — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:59:33 +0000

We will be updating our database and it is necessary to temporarily restrict access to the site from the Web interface.

ETA for coming back live is Friday 13th of July at 10.00 pm GMT

The Feeds 2.0 team

Hosting Provider Operations Restored

feeds2 — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 12:57:53 +0000

It seems like that we’re back to normal again and that was fast!

Thanks SuperWeb

Unexpected Hosting Service Provider Downtime

feeds2 — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 12:43:56 +0000

Our hosting service provider is experiencing some unexpected dowtime problems with all their hosted customers. Unfortunately this has a direct impact to us. We hope to be back live again as soon as possible.

We’ll keep you posted