Keywords

26May03

Gentry mentioned that he’d like to set up watch keywords on craigslist and other buy and sell services, receiving the info as email or an RSS feed. It seems like the idea of feeds based on keywords is pretty pervasive. It’s the kind of functionality that would make events@stanford pretty cool. Is there a good general way of doing this? Is anybody doing this?

I know Bob has mentioned Feedster doing something like this for blogs. Is all information going to come down in RSS feeds, or are there better models?

CNN Newswatch, which is powered by Infogate (which appears to have grown out of Pointcast) implements keyword filtering pretty well, I thought, although the Flash was excessive.

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  1. 1 Bob Ryskamp on Aug 18th, 2003 said:

    WIRED has a good article on RSS aggregators, containing an interesting quote:

    “It’s going to subsume e-mail and subsume many forms of publicity,” said Steve Gillmor, a technology columnist and blogger. “The problem with e-mail is trying to stop a fire hose of data with a thumb in a dike.”

    Gillmor argues that RSS will solve the spam problem with “mutual syndication,” since aggregators subscribe and retrieve data in what’s called a “pull model,” as opposed to e-mail, which other people push to a user’s e-mail account. He also believes that RSS can be helpful in suggesting new sources of information, based on what others with similar feeds are reading.

  2. 2 Kyle Doerksen on Aug 18th, 2003 said:

    via SmartMobs, via cogdogblog

    If you subscribe to many yahoogroups, now you can read the messages in a RSS reader. The Yahoogroups RSS URI Generator (http://feeds.archive.org/misc/yahoogroups/)provides the rss feed for each group. It works only for groups that have a publicly readable archive of messages.

    http://www.smartmobs.com/archives/001481.html

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