Sure, it needs a bit of tweaking (e.g., the ticker should take up less real estate, sources rated as “Strongly Dislike” should effectively be removed from results ASAP, things like this).

For us alpha geeks, I’m not sure it really does much. But I’ve had the opportunity to install and see Particls in action with people who would never, ever use a RSS reader or visiting a blog. But the idea of adding keywords (and being able to rate the importance of specific keywords), combined with the automatic adding of RSS feeds from visited sites, makes the whole idea of capturing new sources of information — primarily blogs — painless to newbies … and people determined to remain newbies because, in general, they think that blogs are crap (and, in general, I tend to agree).

BTW, I use Omea Pro, Google Reader, Bloglines, GreatNews RSS Reader, the Firefox RSS Ticker add-on, and the Google Desktop Web Alerts gadget. I still like the Particls ticker and their Peebles feed. Good stuff. I keep the content in each very different so I don’t have very much overlap, so the systems work very well, as complementary sources.

I like the idea of Particls being a social notifier.

The flowing sidebar display really lends itself to that sort of use.

It is actually possible to track what your friends are bookmarking and digging by subscribing to their ‘lifestream’ feeds. The result would even be filtered based on your own personal interests.

It’s not as easy as it could be though of course – and as you suggest Particls could go a long way to making it easier with some additional features.

Also note that you can right click on items and you will see a context menu that lets you send the item to Digg, Del.icio.us and others – so Particls lets you get social through existing social services. Developers can also extend the context menu.

I’ve written more about this here: http://www.part...ndation-30.html

Next I’d like to see them do something social where what my friends get could appear on my radar if enough of them do it.

@me – 2mb? It’s 200k. And it’s the corporate page. But yeah, it’s maybe due for an update.

You can indeed do that. Particls is actually the first aggregator we know of to share revenue with publishers. You can re-skin it and pre-set it with RSS feeds and send it to users just like Techcrunch has done.

Learn more here: http://www.part...toyouraudience/

I have yet to check out Engagd yet but he sent me some info and told me not to say anything until the big dogs did their blogging. I am going to check it out now…

Here is video where i talk about my use of Particls and do a little demo:
http://danielab...lized-news.html

Particls team- the new sidebar is very useful- especially when i have my two screens going at work. Lovely video demo by the way (http://www.vidd...sSaad/videos/1/) but Chris you seem to forget to be tracking my name- ha.

very much look forward to testing out services that use Engagd- especially if dealing with Attention in the Enterprise space. Feel free to contact me if you are interested in discussing Attention in the Enterprise.