One of the biggest challenges for an aggregation engine, like The Personal Bee, is having sufficient content within a given vertical category to make for an interesting enough aggregated product. We have taken a big step forward this week in implementing feed level filtering -- so now, within a given Beehive, you can add feeds that might have only a little content of interest to your subject and make sure that you get only that content...
Local news aggregation has been one of the big problems for us -- either we have to choose too few blogs and we don't get enough of interest, or we expand the sources and get a lot of extraneous material. Filters solve this, by allowing us to define specifically the town we care about as a filter.
We have applied this idea to a first example -- Berkeley California (since that is where we are):
http://www.personalbee.com/berkeley%20buzz
Let us know what you think of the Berkeley Buzz!
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