Comments on: News Fiends Can Get Their Fix With Addictomatic

By: Analyzing Addictomatic at SMOjoe.com

Analyzing Addictomatic at SMOjoe.com — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:07:32 +0000

[...] quick search brought me to Jason Kincaid’s May 1st 2008 article on Tech Crunch. That’s where I learned that Rollyo founder Dave Pell is behind the innovation. He also [...]

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marshalsandler.com » marshal sandler | Addictomatic — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:27:14 +0000

[...] News Fiends Can Get Their Fix With Addictomatic [...]

By: Tecnologia » Blog Archiv » Addict-o-Matic, conociendo todo lo que se cuece en Internet sobre cualquier tema

Sat, 03 May 2008 05:42:31 +0000

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By: Robert Dempsey

Robert Dempsey — Fri, 02 May 2008 22:28:37 +0000

@Peter Cooper: that is what we are doing with whatsupinruby.com, only the app does all the reading for you. Monitor the conversation rather than aggregating the feeds. Much more to come.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:19:15 +0000

How long before aggregators are being aggregated?

By: VC$

VC$ — Fri, 02 May 2008 07:12:28 +0000

Here is a free tip to the next rss news aggregator; Stop trying to be everything to everyone and just design and optimize on a per niche basis. Typing a keyword for a topic brings totally irrelevant results. Automatic fail. http://www.thenintendo.com . While it is a niche, it does pick up the best sites on topic and presents the info in a much more digestible format then using the glorified ‘news blocks’ popurls clones.

By: jamie

jamie — Fri, 02 May 2008 05:33:30 +0000

i think addictomatic rocks. fun stuff. great layout. not entirely precise but whatever

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 02 May 2008 04:36:07 +0000

Agreed, great name. Brings to mind the slang term for a female-to-male sex change operation, but still a great name.

By: Wicked

Wicked — Fri, 02 May 2008 04:31:56 +0000

News is News

By: yongfook

yongfook — Fri, 02 May 2008 04:31:03 +0000

“Competitors to Addictomatic include popurls and Alltop.”

and the other 50 billion news aggregation websites out there.

By: Twittic

Twittic — Fri, 02 May 2008 03:21:29 +0000

Nice name

By: David Binkowski

David Binkowski — Fri, 02 May 2008 03:12:39 +0000

This is the worst elevator pitch of all time. Clearly I need to take every half-assed idea I have out to the Valley and get some VC funding!

By: Ty

Ty — Fri, 02 May 2008 02:02:01 +0000

>> If nothing else, the site is notable because of Dave Pell’s involvement.

Jason, no criticism of your writing intended and dont know anything about Pell.

>> i’m like totally missing my crunchbase photo here

Too bad, you aint Dave Pell.

By: Peter Cooper

Peter Cooper — Fri, 02 May 2008 01:58:03 +0000

The problem is that the RSS feeds don’t appear to be tailored to the terms you use. They’re the same feeds, just from places that can customize their feeds to keywords, like Google News, del.icio.us, etc.

It’d be very interesting to see this sort of site actually presenting feeds specifically relevant to the topic. So, for example, if I put in “Ruby on Rails” I might get some Rails blogs, Ruby blogs, and some of these meta feeds. If I put in “Microsoft Mesh” I’ll get the meta / search feeds but also any official blogs on the topic. This would take some human work to organize, but I suspect the top 90% of searches could be covered very quickly with some keyword analysis.

I think there’s a middle ground between Addictomatic’s automatic approach and the Alltop approach where only a handful of subjects are covered but the feeds are hand picked.

By: thomas

thomas — Fri, 02 May 2008 01:38:22 +0000

i’m like totally missing my crunchbase photo here

By: Jason Kincaid

Jason Kincaid — Fri, 02 May 2008 01:33:27 +0000

If nothing else, the site is notable because of Dave Pell’s involvement.

By: Ty

Ty — Fri, 02 May 2008 01:07:28 +0000

Coverage of this site by TechCrunch makes my think that web 2.0 has jumped the shark. Great, another site that aggregate feeds and perfoerms search via APIs, with content presented in a Netvibes layout. How original. Who cares?