Feedster

TechCrunch reminded me that I never looked at Feedster into much detail. So I had a look to see whether it had something interesting.

Feedster’s basic service is searching the blogosphere. It seems pretty good, so I subscribed to the search RSS-feed. It also allows you to find out who is linking to you. The service allows you to locate relevant feeds based on keywords. I get the impression that a keyword is a word that one finds in the descriptions and/or title of a feed.

The service allows you to look for job opening based on a job title. It gets these mainly from craigslist.org. Do they have a feed just for jobs? I guess this sounds like a need for the definition of a MicroContent type for job openings. Would be great to have aggregators around this.

Feedster also offers a news aggregation service. They have something like feedpapers. This allows you to create a feed based on other feeds. This is a great way of remixing MicroContent Items. It also allows you to create other feeds, such as an ego feed. I think that this is most interesting way an aggregator can go: remixing existing content in an intelligent way to create new feeds.

tags: microcontent; service; feedster; type; blog;