Intelli-Aggie - auto categorizing and adaptive RSS reader by Srijith
Very cool. In Perl

"Description: Intelli-Aggie is a proof-of-concept RSS feed aggregator and sorter that does the following:

* Fetches user defined RSS feeds.

* Categorises news items in the feeds into user defined categories based on user defined keywords.

* Generates list of these news items grouped in various views. For an example output, check this earlier post of mine.

* The most novel thing about Intelli-Aggie is that the system tries to adapt according to the reader's reading preference, trying to show him/her more interesting and relevant news items first."
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Killer cartoon A new episode every 2 weeks
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Worlwide IP traffic increases by 67 percent in 2003
The Global Internet Geography Database and Report is PriMetrica's expanded and completely updated guide to the global Internet with in-depth statistical coverage of the world's largest Internet backbones, the traffic they carry, and the providers who operate them. Founded on four years of deepening TeleGeography Internet research, this valuable resource combines the latest international IP bandwidth, pricing, and market data with proprietary IP traffic research and expert analysis...
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WebJam!
Vector Lounge continues its journey around the digital world. Ten prententious, er prestigious web designers create some graphical works. More goodies than you can shake a stick figure at! My favorite dancing skeleton(s) wireframe from Amsterdam.
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Steve Kirks's vision of a new kind of browser
RSS feed aware with intelligent filtering and Tivo "learn my interests" technlogy. Great vision!

"Create a different kind of aggregator, one that's a browser first and a RSS reader second. The browser has a preference page where you subscribe to feeds of interest. Second, add a list of keywords to find in the feeds. Third, add technology to monitor your site view habits (think Tivo without the privacy issues).

When you launch this program, it displays a "customized home page" using the prefs from the paragraph above. Click a button on the page and the app opens news/info/entertainment of interest where each category is a window, each web page a tab. Info you wanted to know is highlighted (cues from CSS embedded in the feed or web page). Keywords are highlighted differently.

Wow...where did this post come from. Too much caffeine too early....

Anyway, all of the technology exists for this today. Apple's WebKit and Microsoft's integration of IE allow an app to be written that displays valid HTML correctly, but not be limited to a web browser app.

(via house of warwick) [Roland Tanglao's Weblog] 
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RSSlet - generate RSS feeds from dynamic pages generated via an HTTP POST or GET
Cool hack in progress.

"My ultimate vision for RSSlet is a service that allows users to generate dynamic RSS feeds that actually do something functional from any web page. I'm a big believer in iterative and interactive design and development. So in line with this, rather than developing the service in its entirety and then releasing it to the world, I'm starting with making some of my prototype explorations available for use and feedback. Since this is a work in progress everything here is labeled as use at your own risk. As I add more functionality and polish everything up into a useable standalone service, I'll post updates here.

Other Alternatives

The ability to scrape web pages and make RSS feeds is not unique, NewsIsFree and MyRSS both currently offer the ability to do this in some fashion, but as far as I can tell, neither handle any of the following gracefully:

* pages generated dynamically from the contents of a form (or other source of parameters passed into a page via GET or POST) * password protected data sources

* keyword based filtering"

(via Eightlinks - Features: RSSlets - Functional RSS Feeds) [Roland Tanglao's Weblog] 
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Marketing by RSS
Greg Reinacker:

"If you assign users an individual ID, you can track them to some extent. You can't just look at how many times the feed has been retrieved (not relevant), but by looking at all the data in aggregate, you can tell how many users you have subscribed, the date they subscribed, the approximate date they stopped reading, and other useful data. You can tell, with pretty decent accuracy, how many individual people are reading each post.

And if you are lucky enough to know something about an individual subscriber, you can customize the feed just for them. For example, with the NewsGator Tips feed, we trickle out tips one per day, based on the date you subscribed. It's not hard - you just need a smart server, and your clients need to react correctly to certain HTTP status codes."

By olivier_travers@scifan.com. [Lockergnome's RSS Resource] 
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The Construction web sign museum
Website dedicated the kitschy art of "under construction" web signs.
Link, Discuss (Thanks, Jean-Luc) [Boing Boing Blog] 
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Net censorship in India?
"The thought police is gearing up to storm the virtual world. In what appears to be its first serious attempt to monitor the Internet, the Government of India has outlined an official procedure for blocking websites."
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The world as a blog
Congrats to Mikel. Dave finally discovers Mikel Maron's Geoblog site..

"Weblogs.com + Geocoding + RSS." [Scripting News]

Congrats Mikel. You've finally made it. [Marc's Voice] 
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Macromedia's Version of Weblogs.com
After seeing John's post about Macromedia weblogs, I took a closer look at the site and found this page. It look like they are attempting to replicate what you get from Weblogs.com. The problem is that they are using Cold Fusion on the backend, which can't scale to meet the demands of hundreds of thousands of weblogs pinging it with updates. Furthermore, the list appears to be dated or not yet set up to receive pings.
[Dann Sheridan's Weblog] 
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MP3s via RSS
An experiment with RSS enclosures. If this works, users who subscribe to my feed with an enclosure-aware aggregator will have an MP3 of the interview Chris Lydon did with me last month, with no click-wait. [Scripting News]

Whoa!! I got it, Dave. Very nice. [Dann Sheridan's Weblog] 
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Hey, nice links

Ben Hammersley's Dangerous Precedent: Nicely done.

Accessify Forum: Free to the public: talk about accessibility and design. ("Image replacement - accessible solutions?" and "Accessible sites: follow standards or follow browser bugs?" typify the fare.)

Bionic Ear Blog: Adventures of a woman gaining a new and improved ear.

Clip 'n Seal: Very cool bag closer mfrd by designer and blogger DL Byron.

GoodLogo!com: "World's finest selection of logos."

HTML Wish list: Designer Mike Pick dares to dream.

Meccapixel: Michael Cosentino's photos. Nicely done, sir.

Questia: "The world's largest online library of over 45,000 books and 360,000 journal, magazine, and newspaper articles."

zlog: Nicely done, old bean! Many more ..are readily available for your pleasure. :::

[Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report] 
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Network Blackout
An anonymous reader writes "Renesys put together a special report on the effects of the recent blackout on routing and network reachability on the Internet. ... [Slashdot] 
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Understanding RSS
You wanna know all about RSS? Fine. We're gonna help you figure out what's what! Scott Johnson (of Feedster fame) is officially under agreement to produce a tutorial on news aggregators and RSS. It'll be sold direct by Lockergnome and via Amazon. He recently came to me with the suggestion that there needed to be a good, comprehensive resource to help get people started. He suggested a "Mom's First Aggregator" sort of thing. I agreed, and let him have at it. He hopes to be finished with it before Halloween, covering: The Basics, How an Aggregator Can Change Your Life, Versions and Basic Terminology, RSS For Content Publishers, Developers, Users, & Marketers, Choosing an Aggregator, The World's Simplest Aggregator, etc. If you would like your tips, thoughts, or experiences added to the tome, please let us know immediately.

By chris@pirillo.com. [Lockergnome's RSS Resource] 
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Roll your own Google feeds
Today I want to introduce you to three Google query solutions that are accomplishing incredible feats with RSS and Google search technology.

1) Google Alert - Track any search query from your favorite news aggregator. A variety of cool settings are available once you are signed up. My only gripe is that it is primarily focused on email alerts and I had to dig around before I found the RSS settings in the "toolkit".

2) "It's Google.rss" - I like this tool for query tracking better than Google Alert because I can get to making my RSS feed right away without the login interface and other annoyances. It is a great example of "no frills" ingenuity at work.

3) Gnews2RSS - The holy grail of RSS news feeds, in my opinion. You can finally get Google news without being bound to using MyRSS.com or any other ad supported RSS generator. The webmaster of Gnews2RSS encourages users to host their own version of this tool with his script. A link back to the script's author would be appropriate if used for personal use.
By matt@ctsdownloads.com. [Lockergnome's RSS Resource] 
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Geeks Grapple With Virus Invasion
Security experts are finding plenty of targets to blame for an onslaught of worms and viruses over the last two weeks. Among the targets: ego-ridden hackers, bad Microsoft code and clueless users. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News] 
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