Defrag the News - Flowww

Defrag the news…

consolidates and simplifies the daily tech news.

• We’ve grown up with BBSs…. lurked Slashdot.org…. followed Digg ….. and have used Del.cio.us religiously.

• Over the past year we’ve explored Popurls, Alltop, Addict-o-matic, and many many others.

• At nights, we sit down and read RSS readers

to slug it through thousands of feeds, postings, google-alerts, and other tech news sources.

There are significant problems with this daily approach to consuming the tech news though…..

…..and those tedious problems are shared by many.

• takes news leads via e-mail & other sources• harvests items for evaluation tagged or

described with “flowww” from del.cioi.us, flickr, etc.

• aggregates the aggregators• mines unstructured text to gauge opinion on a

topic and relevance.• trends and compares• weights by the influence of behavior• filters it down to the most interesting stuff • displays it all in a site *preview* GUI• saves you time

It is powered by…SPSS Clementine, and several other fancy stats apps

…..plus a dash of randomness and regression.

In the near future….we’ll be releasing an RSS to Flowww widget for you to embed in your blog, profile, site, etc.

Enjoy the BETA …while we continue to tune it!