Twingly, the Swedish startup that brought us a microblogging search tool, a search engine for blogs, and a global ranking system for blogs, is launching a new product called Twingly Channels. Twingly Channels, which will officially launch in closed beta in October, will allow users to create their own personalized real-time memetracker.
A mix between Digg, Friendfeed and Techmeme, Twingly Channels allows users to create their own personalized memetracker by collecting feeds and search terms covering any topic or event into a channel they share with others. Twingly Channels, which is updated in realtime, has three main sources of content: links posted by users, content from RSS feeds, and real-time search results for terms from blogs and microblogs (i.e. Twitter). The resulting stream is filtered into a Friendfeed-like channel where people can comment on, like, or dislike incoming items.
Channels will be public by default, but to comment or subscribe you will need to sign up. You will also be able to login with your Twitter or Facebook account. One interesting component is a ranking system to filter content. Every item coming into the channel is continuously ranked using links from blogs, Tweets, user comments and likes. The highest ranked items are shown in the Popular view.
The site sounds like it could be incredibly useful for aggregating RSS feeds, tracking specific content on blogs and microblogs and then sharing that content with others, all on one site. The blog/microblog search is powered by Twingly’s search engine which tracks close to 26 million blogs around the world.
Here are a few screenshots to whet your appetite:
This looks great, but at the same time it makes it even easier for spammers to target their spam.
The blog/microblog search is powered by Twingly’s search engine which tracks close to 26 million blogs around the world.
>>>> Twingly. Nice name. MemeTrackers are already available. But the point of success relies on the speed of the blog search engine. Hope it would provides a good service to have a personalized MemeTracker.
Twingly a Swedish startup has already given us a microblogging search tool, a search engine and a global ranking for blogs. But now it has come with a very new product called Twingly Channels.
This site sounds good and it could be incredibly useful for aggregating RSS feeds, tracking specific content on blogs and microblogs and the ranking system to filter content is different.
We shall wait till October to watch the channel!
What’s a “memetracker”?
Think of it as the breaking news of the internet
What’s the “internet”?
think “boring news you already know, and lolcats, lots of lolcats”
I see what you did there.
Feeddemon does that already with their reports feature. Anyway, it’s cool!
“What’s a “memetracker”?”
Meme: Any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another. …
Very interesting post. Thanks for sharing. I completely agree that the concept of a channel that mixes content items by topic is very powerful. You also might want to look at Arktan, an early stage startup that has a flexible and useful, personalized topic channel concept. You can segment and mix your aggregated digital activity based on your topics and interests. For example you can create a personalized Swedish vacation channel with your photos and Blogs from the vacation or a more coarse Multimedia channel with all your photos and blogs from Flickr and YouTube. etc. Here is an example of my Stockholm Archipelago channel:
http://www.arkt...holmarchipelago
Created using:
http://arktan.com/blog/?cat=10
Looking good!
I am very much looking forward to trying this out. If the speed is on par with the blog search the user experience should be really nice!
My company (www.lindex.com) is a customer of Twingly. They do a great job of providing Lindex e-commerce web site with links to blogs mentioning our products. Links are almost always spam free.
I am very excited to see how this new product will work and how we can use it here at Lindex.
Keep up the good work
Anders
Glad to see other are jumping into the bandwagon of tracking and aggregating real-time web. That means we are on the right track.
However, according to your description, I don’t really see why that is ‘personalized’. I would invite you to check our approach with Microplaza, we wanted to come up with an app that lets users track every single link shared at their own twitter friend network (not only the public stream), and we think that’s a step beyond in the personalization approach.
Not sure whether blogs are real-time web, but that’s another discussion (very interesting posts by Doc Searls, etc on that btw).
Anyway, we’ll see. Thanks for the post.