How would you like an RSS aggregator that watched, and learnt from, your behaviour? You can explicitly tell it your likes and dislikes by clicking a heart or a down arrow. Or it will just watch what feed titles you click on and make up its own mind. It then delivers future feeds prioritised to the likelihood of you being interested.
FEEDS 2.0 promises this. It was announced last month by GTP Solutions in Greece and is about to move from private to limited public beta testing. IWR put it through its paces last month and the signs are good. To get an insight, take a look at these images on Flickr. FEEDS 2.0 was given a positive review by the generally hard-nosed Michael Arrington in his TechCrunch blog - look at GTP's traffic spike measured by Alexa - a peak of three million page impressions. Phew.
The people behind FEEDS 2.0 are computer wizards. The ceo, Dr Nicholas Ampazis, is a neural computing specialist and an assistant professor at a Greek University. His company previously created an intelligent search engine called NOISIS (Neural Optimized Intelligent System Information Server) which reminds me a little of the way Autonomy works - understanding concepts and context regardless of the language or the format of the original material.
It would be nice to think of Dr Ampazis walking into a taverna and finding a backer, just like autonomy's Mike Lynch did when he walked into a Cambridge bar all those years ago.
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