Defrag the news…

consolidates and simplifies the daily tech news.

We’ve grown up with BBSs …. lurked Slashdot.org …. followed Digg ….. and have used Del.cio.us religiously. Over the past year we’ve explored Popurls , Alltop , Addict-o-matic , and many many others. At nights, we sit down and read RSS readers to slug it through thousands of feeds, postings, google-alerts , and other tech news sources .

We’ve grown up with BBSs …. lurked Slashdot.org …. followed Digg ….. and have used Del.cio.us religiously.

Over the past year we’ve explored Popurls , Alltop , Addict-o-matic , and many many others.

At nights, we sit down and read RSS readers to slug it through thousands of feeds, postings, google-alerts , and other tech news sources .

There are significant problems with this daily approach to consuming the tech news though….. … ..and those tedious problems are shared by many.

There are significant problems with this daily approach to consuming the tech news though…..

… ..and those tedious problems are shared by many.

takes news leads via e-mail & other sources harvests items for evaluation tagged or described with “flowww” from del.cioi.us, flickr, etc. aggregates the aggregators mines unstructured text to gauge opinion on a topic and relevance. trends and compares weights by the influence of behavior filters it down to the most interesting stuff displays it all in a site *preview* GUI saves you time

takes news leads via e-mail & other sources

harvests items for evaluation tagged or described with “flowww” from del.cioi.us, flickr, etc.

aggregates the aggregators

mines unstructured text to gauge opinion on a topic and relevance.

trends and compares

weights by the influence of behavior

filters it down to the most interesting stuff

displays it all in a site *preview* GUI

saves you time

It is powered by… SPSS Clementine , and several other fancy stats apps …..plus a dash of randomness and regression.

In the near future … .we’ll be releasing an RSS to Flowww widget for you to embed in your blog, profile, site, etc.

In the near future

… .we’ll be releasing an RSS to Flowww widget

for you to embed in your blog, profile, site, etc.

Enjoy the BETA …while we continue to tune it!