Comments for The FeedZero Blog http://blog.feedzero.com Development blog for FeedZero.com Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:13:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 Comment on Feedzero Update - Improved RSS Ingestion! by Tom http://blog.feedzero.com/20080823/feedzero-update-improved-rss-ingestion/#comment-511 Tom Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:34:59 +0000 http://blog.feedzero.com/?p=15#comment-511 It'd be good to have some keyboard shortcuts, for e.g. mark as read and liked, mark as read and disliked and mark as read as neither, oh and "v" for viewing the full item. It'd also be good to have an output RSS feed, containing javascript tick and cross buttons, so we could read the output elsewhere. It’d be good to have some keyboard shortcuts, for e.g. mark as read and liked, mark as read and disliked and mark as read as neither, oh and “v” for viewing the full item.

It’d also be good to have an output RSS feed, containing javascript tick and cross buttons, so we could read the output elsewhere.

]]> Comment on Feedzero Update - Improved RSS Ingestion! by trog http://blog.feedzero.com/20080823/feedzero-update-improved-rss-ingestion/#comment-510 trog Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:48:47 +0000 http://blog.feedzero.com/?p=15#comment-510 Hey, thanks for the positive comments! Re: your requests: 1) We're experimenting with a few options here I believe. 2) Bookmarking - definitely something I want to see. Maybe something similar to Google Reader's star system would do? 3) That is a cool idea; maybe some sort of 'tag cloud' kind of thing that shows the weightings of terms you like/don't like. Re: algorithm: it seems to work pretty well so far and afaik we don't have anyone that is not getting any items in their filter. The key thing for the algorithm appears to be maintaining a good balance between items you've trained as 'good' and items you've trained as 'bad'. One of the things on our TODO is some sort of visual indicator to help you get this balance right. Hey, thanks for the positive comments!

Re: your requests:

1) We’re experimenting with a few options here I believe.

2) Bookmarking - definitely something I want to see. Maybe something similar to Google Reader’s star system would do?

3) That is a cool idea; maybe some sort of ‘tag cloud’ kind of thing that shows the weightings of terms you like/don’t like.

Re: algorithm: it seems to work pretty well so far and afaik we don’t have anyone that is not getting any items in their filter. The key thing for the algorithm appears to be maintaining a good balance between items you’ve trained as ‘good’ and items you’ve trained as ‘bad’. One of the things on our TODO is some sort of visual indicator to help you get this balance right.

]]> Comment on Feedzero Update - Improved RSS Ingestion! by bOR_ http://blog.feedzero.com/20080823/feedzero-update-improved-rss-ingestion/#comment-509 bOR_ Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:34:20 +0000 http://blog.feedzero.com/?p=15#comment-509 Great! I only started looking today for bayasian trainable RSS readers, and was happy to find feedzero (this still appears to be quite a novel idea for RSS aggregation websites). In my case I use (or intend to) feedzero to filter through the new scientific literature that comes out in my field. As that is about 50 papers / abstracts per day, having a somewhat brainy RSS reader that narrows that down is a blessing. Looking forward to the improvements :). requests thus far: * some kind of settings dialog, where i can alter my settings for hiding / showing things I marked as disliked, things I probably dislike, things I marked as liked etc. * some kind of bookmarking system so that I can store certain entries for later browsing. * for fun: some (wordle?) representation of what your bayesian filter has learned so far. suggestion for the algorithm: I am not too familiar with spam trainers, but it might be worthwhile to let a user-settable percentage of the feeds slip through without being weighted. In this way you might give people that have overtrained their filter into not presenting anything with a few particular keywords into adding some nuances. Great! I only started looking today for bayasian trainable RSS readers, and was happy to find feedzero (this still appears to be quite a novel idea for RSS aggregation websites).

In my case I use (or intend to) feedzero to filter through the new scientific literature that comes out in my field. As that is about 50 papers / abstracts per day, having a somewhat brainy RSS reader that narrows that down is a blessing. Looking forward to the improvements :).

requests thus far:
* some kind of settings dialog, where i can alter my settings for hiding / showing things I marked as disliked, things I probably dislike, things I marked as liked etc.
* some kind of bookmarking system so that I can store certain entries for later browsing.
* for fun: some (wordle?) representation of what your bayesian filter has learned so far.

suggestion for the algorithm:
I am not too familiar with spam trainers, but it might be worthwhile to let a user-settable percentage of the feeds slip through without being weighted. In this way you might give people that have overtrained their filter into not presenting anything with a few particular keywords into adding some nuances.

]]> Comment on Bug fixes and improvements by admin http://blog.feedzero.com/20080411/bugfix-article-timestamps/#comment-11 admin Thu, 29 May 2008 00:50:08 +0000 http://blog.feedzero.com/?p=12#comment-11 Are you sure you are not actually in the future? It's quite possibly a bug - I'll make sure its ticketed for the development team to check it out - thanks! Are you sure you are not actually in the future?

It’s quite possibly a bug - I’ll make sure its ticketed for the development team to check it out - thanks!

]]> Comment on Bug fixes and improvements by Giles Weaver http://blog.feedzero.com/20080411/bugfix-article-timestamps/#comment-10 Giles Weaver Wed, 28 May 2008 12:00:10 +0000 http://blog.feedzero.com/?p=12#comment-10 I've been seeing some strange timestamps, -47 seconds for instance! I don't see this in other feed readers. Perhaps there is a timezone problem (I am in Great Britain). I’ve been seeing some strange timestamps, -47 seconds for instance!
I don’t see this in other feed readers. Perhaps there is a timezone problem (I am in Great Britain).

]]> Comment on Welcome to the Feedzero.com blog! by Giles Weaver http://blog.feedzero.com/20080320/welcome-to-the-feedzerocom-blog/#comment-9 Giles Weaver Tue, 27 May 2008 22:48:55 +0000 http://blog.feedzero.com/?p=3#comment-9 I've been looking for something like feedzero for a while, so I'm was really pleased to find it and to see that it actually works! It would be great if we could access the filtered stories as a feed, though obviously we'd have to visit feedzero to train it. Keep up the good work! I’ve been looking for something like feedzero for a while, so I’m was really pleased to find it and to see that it actually works!
It would be great if we could access the filtered stories as a feed, though obviously we’d have to visit feedzero to train it.

Keep up the good work!

]]> Comment on What is RSS? by The Feedzero Blog » Blog Archive » RSS Basics (or, Why you should care about RSS) http://blog.feedzero.com/what-is-rss/#comment-3 The Feedzero Blog » Blog Archive » RSS Basics (or, Why you should care about RSS) Mon, 07 Apr 2008 01:33:03 +0000 http://blog.feedzero.com/?page_id=7#comment-3 [...] are new to terms like “RSS”, “feed”, and combinations of the two, we have a simple guide to RSS which explains some of the basics, including “What The Hell Is It?” and [...] [...] are new to terms like “RSS”, “feed”, and combinations of the two, we have a simple guide to RSS which explains some of the basics, including “What The Hell Is It?” and [...]

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