Library clips

It’s getting more interesting by the minute…these newsmastering portals are looking better and better, and most are incorporated into a folksonomy environment.

pulverati is the latest of these tools and it is only new, there seems more to come.

Basically you splice up some feeds and make yourself a river of news (public/private)…at the moment you can only make one watchlist per account, it also seems that you can add tags to your watchlist.

Here is a list of users, notice you can discover a watchlist by clicking on a tag, or using the search box.

Here is a watchlist (river of news)

…each item clearly lists the author, category/tag, and the home page, and also a link to read the native post.
You’ll also notice if you click on an author or category it will filter your river of news by author or category…this is such a clean and easy interface.

Another thing is that you can vote or comment on an item (similar memedigging concept to FeedButler).

Over to the right is where the fun continues:
- search
- filter river of news to a single feed, category, and/or date (you can also search within these filters…generating search feeds)
- sort by newest, most relevant, most popular (generates a feed for each)

Not sure what relevancy is based on, maybe some sort of text analysis…and popularity would obviously be based on citations (incoming links).

Here is the feeds page for this users watchlist
…where’s the OPML Reading List?

The only thing that seems to be missing is a personal memetracking view that displays only the hot items with discussion links, and related links…also a digest where you can clip items to is coming back in vogue.

Lastly is a friends tab where you can bookmark your favourite users…you can also see a river of news from all the friends in your list, but not one river at a time, it’s all your friends watchlist mixed into a mega watchlist…well, at least that’s what it seems.

Feedback
- Filter feeds when you add them to the watchlist (seems to be splice only)
- Where’s the OPML for each watchlist, together with tags this will be a Reading List and Newsmaster folksonomy (spliced/filtered feed)…and maybe a native feed folksonomy as it seems all native feeds have a category assigned.
- You can filter to see content by one author, category/tag, feed…what about a selection?
- What about a tag cloud..actually the home page features a user watchlist and this does have a tag cloud.

The only other Public RSS Aggregators I have seen that transport tags/categories within the feeds are SuprGlu and MySyndicaat.

MySyndicaat has the processing power, and SuprGlu has the personalised look, and Blogdigger Groups spits out an OPML Reading List (so does Kinja), but Pulverati really looks the best and is very slick, and is in a folksonomy environment like Kinja and Feedbite.
Whooo it’s really heating up in this market…public feed readers are becoming as numerous as personal feed readers (well, not quite, but…)