Comments on: Yet Another RSS start-up, Attensa http://gigaom.com/2005/06/24/yet-another-rss-start-up-attensa/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:14:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Om Malik http://gigaom.com/2005/06/24/yet-another-rss-start-up-attensa/#comment-104623 Sat, 25 Jun 2005 00:05:43 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/06/24/yet-another-rss-start-up-attensa/#comment-104623 well expose to the masses… what it does different i am not sure. collaborative filtering of good stuff, well that’s good except rojo does that as well. i am really wondering why i would switch from newsgator to them. i think the big issue with rss start-ups is that they don’t understand the basic reason i use rss: customize my news/media consumption experience. i couldn’t care less about the collaboration of the masses. i just know exactly what works for me, from which blog or news source. collaboration is highly overrated. except in spam, where i think it makes lot of sense.

]]> By: Paul C http://gigaom.com/2005/06/24/yet-another-rss-start-up-attensa/#comment-104622 Fri, 24 Jun 2005 23:24:09 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/06/24/yet-another-rss-start-up-attensa/#comment-104622 Is it really the same as Newsgator?

Their company blurb is more than a little vague & buzzword-heavy, but it sounds like their fundamental technology is based around attention.xml and collaborative filtering. The Outlook plugin is just a vehicle to expose it to the masses.

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