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May 29, 2007

Particls : new in attention management

Filed under: rss, tools, attention

I posted about Particls a while back when it was called Touchstone, basically it is a personalised information filter and alert service.

A popular use is to input some feeds, OPML or search some keywords, and then adjust some settings…additionally to these manual settings you can let particls learn from you, it learns from your click behaviour and will filter only the information it thinks you like based on the past clicks.

Apart from filtering information it also delivers information according to your attention requirements, whether it’s a ticker, pop-up toast, click trail, sticky note, etc…

particls is not limited to RSS feeds, the idea is for any format type of information to be fed into an adapter and come out the other end.

So what’s new besides the name change?

Right-click menu
- rate items
- action items to places like del.icio.us, digg, sphere, etc…create more.

Tear-offs
- for those ticker items and pop-up alerts that you want to read in a few minutes time, you can tear them and place them as a post-it note on your desktop

Images
- alerts now have images

Auto-Away
- will automatically detect when you’re away from your computer. It will then hold off your alerts until you come back.

Auto-subscriber
- the auto-subscriber can learn which sites you visit most regularly and automatically subscribe to those sites for you.

Persistent searches
- basically like a search feed

You own RSS feed
- similar to the Google Reader clip blog, you get your own RSS feed that others can subscribe to, or that you could put in a widget so others can see the latest stuff you are paying attention (based on highly rated items).

For the publisher

Just like some widgets services allow you to offer a take away widget of your blog, so does particls. You can offer people a fully branded particls version of your blog that people can download.
This can be re-skinned and turned into a regular particls app, but if it was downloaded from your blog, you get the revenue…that’s an incredibly fair offer.

Roundup : Tribler, Purplenova, PageFlakes Pagecasts, BackupBlogOnline, NewsGator Desktop

Filed under: tools, roundup

Triblr - is a p2p file sharing social network, similar are Qnext and others

Purplenova - turn your computer into a web server, ie. every file/folder on your computer gets a URL, where others can access it (stream) from your computer…seems like the webified version of Triblr above.
[via DI]

PageFlakes Pagecasts - PageFlakes has revamped its public pages now called Pagecasts, others in this space are Webjam and Netvibes Universe…the Zimbio topic portal directory formerly had a widget page summary view, but now it has changed to wikizines. See here for similar non-widget based topic pages. [via TC]

BackupBlogOnline - from their website:
“With BlogBackupOnline, users can create a full blog backup, schedule automatic daily backups, restore a blog, transfer a blog to another platform, and export their backup file in RSS format.”
For those that publish blogs on a 3rd party client like Qumana or WriteToMyBlog, will already have a back up…or perhaps you use Word or an Office 2.0 word processor…or even bookmark all your posts on Furl where they are cached.

NewsGator Desktop - system tray pop-up toast alerts for those warm treats, also see Alertbear, Newsplorer, Newzie, Touchstone (now particls), Blerts, NewsGator Desktop Alert

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