Blastfeed
How to cope with information overload? How to follow hundreds of information sources and only grab what’s of interest to you? Blastfeed offers an nice and efficient solution.
Blastfeed is an on-line service that lets users remix and filter loads of RSS feeds. Blastfeed immediately notifies users of any results matching such filtering. Notification can be handled by email, Instant Messaging or as a new RSS feed, when and where users want it.
Released in public beta early 2007, Blastfeed has proved to be stable and capable of dealing with thousands of feeds.
Now Blastfeed is a solution that can be deployed for the enterprise. Contact us to know how we can help you with your information management needs.
Blastfeed can also be used to push filtered information onto blogs or web pages.
Automatic blogging:
Blastfeed can be used to power blogs automatically with a continuous stream of filtered feeds. For instance, in 2007 we set up an automatic blog about the French presidential election. The idea was to mix hundreds of news and blogs feeds and detect in each post whose candidate was mentioned.
We then computed some statistics from the amount of information we gathered and we sort of predicted the results of the first and second round with a error margin of around 0.5%. Le Monde newspaper wrote a paper on these findings (in French).
We have launched such a blog for the next US presidential election in 2008. Follow what is said in more than 250 sources, blogs and news sites, about each candidate.