Comments on: NoiseRiver: the Friendfeed App That's Your New Bicycle.

By: Rishabh Mishra (possible248)

Rishabh Mishra (possible248) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:28:09 +0000

mionews.com actually looks pretty interesting. I'll put it on my list of posts that I may get to in the future.

By: plightbo

plightbo — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:49:41 +0000

NoiseRiver is definitely on the right track. I just left a comment at Karim's blog, but I wanted to also share my take on how to cut through the noise: http://mionews.com. It's also based on FriendFeed, but the UI is very different. It takes a reader-style UI approach and introduces a couple of additional concepts:

* You can "hate" articles. This is instead of "hating" topics. In the background, we auto-tag articles and therefore automatically adjust the scores for various topics for you.
* You can't adjust the like/hate score for individual topics, but you can track topics and see which stories match those topics.
* Unrelated to the relevance ranking, there are some different UI things going on compared to FF and NR. Grouping friends in to folders may turn out to be a good way to keep track of close friends despite other noise-makers (ie: Scoble).

It'll be interesting to compare the output of the two different relevance techniques as time goes on.

By: possible248

possible248 — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:28:09 +0000

mionews.com actually looks pretty interesting. I'll put it on my list of posts that I may get to in the future.

By: plightbo

plightbo — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:49:41 +0000

By: directeur

directeur — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 08:49:45 +0000

Hum... this is a little bit unfair. Everyone seems to be able to write *better* blog posts than me :)

Seriously, thank you so much for the review of NoiseRiver, I really appreciate all your nice words about it. Actually like said in the home page, this app is still alpha an to be franc, I made it in about a week. Lots of things are to add/fix/invent... It was a real joy for me to develop it, and as you said, I wish the API was "larger"... but, heh, like french people say: "On fait ce qu'on peut avec ce qu'on a " (we do what we can with what he have" :)

Again thanks for the review and the link to the room on FriendFeed. Any suggestion, critic, error reporting or rant is really welcome :)

P.S. I'm one of your reader, btw, so keep up the good work! I enjoy it :)

By: Karim

Karim — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:49:45 +0000

Hum… this is a little bit unfair. Everyone seems to be able to write *better* blog posts than me :)

Seriously, thank you so much for the review of NoiseRiver, I really appreciate all your nice words about it. Actually like said in the home page, this app is still alpha an to be franc, I made it in about a week. Lots of things are to add/fix/invent… It was a real joy for me to develop it, and as you said, I wish the API was “larger”… but, heh, like french people say: “On fait ce qu’on peut avec ce qu’on a ” (we do what we can with what he have” :)

Again thanks for the review and the link to the room on FriendFeed. Any suggestion, critic, error reporting or rant is really welcome :)

P.S. I’m one of your reader, btw, so keep up the good work! I enjoy it :)