Techzingo: news by tag
Along the lines of DiggLicious and Diggdot.us, Techzingo is a tag cloud generated from memeorandum, slashdot, digg, and the register.
Clicking on a tag will show you stories with that tag…these services don’t seem to have tags, so each tag must just be a search term…also you can subscribe to an RSS feed for each tag.
SuprGlu enables you to splice feeds and view the content from all these feeds by tag, but I don’t think it will do it by search term…although you could do something along these lines with TagCloud or PersonalBee…but each tag doesn’t have an RSS feed.
I wonder how the tags (search terms) come about at Techzingo.
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Thanks for mentioning the Personal Bee - although we are quite ready for the attention! Still working to get our beta ready to launch later this month. But I thought I’d comment on one point that you made here — the “cloud” that the Personal Bee generates is not a tag cloud. Tags are user generated labels that may or may not be good indicators of what something is about and do not evolve over time… by contrast what we are doing (which we call a phrase map) is extract actual phrases being used in the articles in a given topical group (which we call a Bee), analyze them for time relevance, and present them ranked according to a relevance algorithm that we have developed which takes into account usage frequency, distribution across feeds, interest window frequency, and other factors. So we believe that a phrase map gives you a window into what a set of feeds are talking about right now — as opposed to a static view imposed by a set of historical tags. Best - Ted Shelton, CEO The Personal Bee, Inc.
Comment by Ted Shelton — March 10, 2006 @ 4:38 pm
Ted,
I did forget to mention that even though Personal Bee works on text analysis, like TagCloud (auto-tags), there is quite a difference under the bonnet in the way of bubbling up unique topics.
A lot of the times unique terms, or should I say phrases, are unique because they haven’t been heard or strung together yet, meaning they must be new, and perhaps the latest breaking news.
I believe Personal Bee tries to tease out these phrases…so it can be seen as a way to read fresh content, rather than a way to categorise content in general.
I have quoted you guys in an earlier post:
So how is it different to TagCloud, well for starters it is an RSS reader, but how is the keyword extraction different…here is the unique method according to the new instruction, HOW-TO Be a Beekeeper:
“Each Bee edition ranks topics (i.e. keyphrases) proportional to their popularity within the interest window and inversely proportionally to their historical popularity. It’s a simple concept, yet it works well. Consider for instance the topic “Google.” Without an established historical baseline, the topic “Google” would constantly rank high on the topic list, thus pushing down other potentially new and interesting topics. In a Bee edition, “Google” would rarely make the topic list because of its high historical popularity. Instead, the day Google announced “Google Talk,” that topic immediately reached the top of the ranked topic list because the phrase “Google Talk” was mentioned 100’s of times and had no history in the edition.”
…And since a popular topic requires multiple mentions before its ranking increases, it can take several days for interesting topics to “bubble” to the top of the list. As a corollary, topics at the top of the list can take several days to “fade away.”
…The Personal Bee tracks multi-word keyphrases rather than single keywords. Single keywords are simply too general and/or ambiguous
So the difference is that it seems to be effective in teasing out keyphrases for new unique terms, which is great for current awareness.
Comment by Johnt — March 13, 2006 @ 8:22 am