The FeedZero Blog

We have just uploaded our first update for FeedZero.com . This week we have concentrated on polishing up some of the more obvious bugs. Here’s a quick summary of the changes:

• Fixed ‘Contact us’ page
• Fixed the collapsing/expanding of articles on rating change (to stop the page jumping around when rating)
• Better handling for broken HTML in articles
• Better handling for timestamps on articles
• Don’t change state of manually collapsed/expanded articles when rating
• Improved support for RDF feeds
• Fixed a bug resulting in multiple feed subscriptions from a single site
• Separation of static content
• Fixed a bug preventing the paging system from working in Safari
• Performance improvements for the back-end feed downloader service.
• Use ‘pretty’ URLs like /articles instead of /ViewArticles/Index.rails
• Few tweaks for IE6 and IE7 behaviour.

We have also added linked this blog off the main FeedZero site. If you have any issues with any of the changes, please feel free to let us know in the comments!

Our next release should have a “read/unread” feature to keep track of which articles you have previously seen.

Welcome to the development blog for Feedzero, the Bayesian RSS filter!

Feedzero attempts to make your digital life a lot easier by helping to mitigate the increasingly common problem of information overload. As you try to keep up with more and more websites, you might find yourself subscribed to many different RSS feeds, with hundreds or even thousands of pieces of news coming at you on a daily basis.

Using Bayesian filtering - the same technology that is used to help combat spam emails - Feedzero learns what sort of information you like and what sort you don’t like. All it takes is a bit of training, and then shortly afterwards you’ll be receiving a customised page that contains information tailored specifically and carefully to your preferences.

Feedzero has just recently been unveiled to a small group of users and we’re currently making a number of changes based on their feedback - so please stay tuned for updates in the very near future.

We’ll be keeping this blog updated with the latest goings-on with the Feedzero website, so please stay tuned for more information as it becomes available.