Feeds 2.0 vs FeedHub

FeedHub has launched its personalized feed and recommendation product at the 2007 DEMOfall Conference. It creates a personalized RSS feed from you reading list and intelligently displays the most relevant posts.

With FeedHub, you can import your feed reading list (RSS feeds in an OPML format) and FeedHub produces a personalized feed from it. The feed can then be imported into your favorite feed reader.

Here’s how you can do exactly the same with Feeds 2.0 (if my memory serves me right, I believe that we implemented this feature more than a year ago):

a) Import your OPML list

b) Select “All posts” and then just copy the URL of the RSS icon.

c) Import your Feeds 2.0 (re-mixed and personalized) feed by pasting the above URL to your favorite feed reader. For this example I will import my personalized feed to GReader.

d) Enjoy and save time browsing your feeds.

However I like the fact that FeedHub leverages a combination between active human inputs and machine learning. It creates memes from popular bookmarking services like (Digg and Delicious) to identify articles by topic or category and is supposed to automatically discover new memes and based on the previous items a user interacted with. It strongly reminds me of the very interesting Ilya Grigorik’s aideRSS principles.

P.S. Ooops, I guess that from my personalized feed list above you can easily see what we’ve been up to recently

Greece on Fire (day 2)

The disaster continues…

Greece in a state of emergency

The Greek government today declared the entire country in a state of emergency after raging and uncontrollable forest fires killed at least 50 people so far.

Very hard and sad times for all of us…

 

More News Coverage

The latest issue of the Hellenic Center for Investment (ELKE) newsletter features an interview with our CEO on Feeds 2.0 and its future directions. You may check it out here.

Feeds 2.0 featured in Greece’s #1 Circulation Sunday Newspaper

Today Feeds 2.0 is featured in “Proto Thema”, Greece’s #1 Sunday Newspaper in terms of official Sunday Newspapers circulation stats. The newspaper features an interview with our CEO Dr Nicholas Ampazis on the occasion of the first businness plan award that we received on the 8th International Venture Capital Forum which took place two weeks ago in Athens, Greece.

The inteview is in Greek but we hope to be able to provide a translated transcript in English very soon, here in our blog.

Congratulations Nicholas!

The Feeds 2.0 team

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Our hosting service provider is experiencing some unexpected dowtime problems with all their hosted customers. Unfortunately this has a direct impact to us. We hope to be back live again as soon as possible.

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We just received the best business plan prize for Feeds 2.0 !!!

GTP Solutions (our company) was awarded the best business plan prize at the 8th International Venture Capital Forum which took place in Hotel Grande Bretagne, in Athens, on 3 & 4 July 2007. Businessmen, researchers, policy makers from Southeast Europe and East Mediterranean were invited to attend, to present their business ideas and discuss venture opportunities in dedicated bilateral meetings.

The prize was awarded for the business plan of the company regarding its Feeds 2.0 service which has been in private beta for almost a year now since its successful launch at the Innovate!Europe 2006 event last May in Zaragoza.

The “Best Business Plan Prize” winner was selected by the VCs that participated in the forum. The VCs evaluated the submitted business plans based on the following criteria:

• Business idea – Innovative aspects
• Qualities of the management team
• Market potentials – Competitive advantage
• Expected returns
• Presentation – Integrity of business plan

The prize was awarded to the CEO of the company Dr Nicholas Ampazis by the Greek minister of Economy and Finance Mr George Alogoskoufis in a special ceremony within the framework of the forum.