NewsMonster is an advanced weblog manager, reputation system, micropayment economy, and semantic web application. NewsMonster allows the user to keep track of news and use reputation within the blogging community to help discover new weblogs, important articles, and other compelling relationships.
In one sense, NewsMonster is just an RSS aggregator. It allows the user to subscribe to RSS channels and keep track of recent news. NewsMonster also supports advanced aggregation functionality including the extraction of content for PDA support, a "sitefilter" for websites that don't support RSS, rich images on each channel including favicons, and many other features.
NewsMonster doesn't stop there. We also incorporate an advanced reputation system which allows for the sharing of certifications . These certifications allow NewsMonster to moderate and discover new (high quality) resources.
NewsMonster will also implement a reputation-based micropayment reinforcement system named the Distributed Patron Protocol (DPP) which will be made possible once our reputation system has been deployed. The DPP creates a feedback loop within the community in order to reward patrons who donate funds towards worthy causes. We expect that the DPP will help artists, Open Source developers, and non-profit organizations such as the EFF encourage monetary contribution for their projects.
