Techmeme. Rivva. Tailrank. Megite. Yeah, memetrackers, that’s right. While all of them provide a great service, there’s always stuff I am not interested in. Also there is the language barrier: Rivva is focusing (mostly) on German blogs while the other three services only include articles written in English. That’s not ideal when reading blogs and news in both languages.
Megite is providing a service called MyMegite where users can send a link to their OPML file and then a personalized version of Megite will be created (took a month or so). That’s pretty cool as I quickly see discussions which are interesting to me. The service is not perfect yet, especially regarding German discussions. Sometimes the articles don’t fit, even dealing with completely different topics. Nevertheless I think it is a great effort. I will have to finetune my OPML file a little bit now, though.
MyMegite is here, by the way. 
Almost forgot it: Tailrank has a similar feature. Just linked to the OPML file there as well. Let’s see how that one works.
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That’s quite sweet, actually!
I regard some degree of serendipity as healthy (and I think you would agree), otherwise you end up suffering from memetic incest. So, it’s a fine balance to hit that “sweet spot”.
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Yes, it’s not really a problem. Would be boring if everything was perfect. Are you considering a similar feature for Rivva or are you still cutting down on features?
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First, I want to get the things “right” that are already there.
IMHO, personalization falls under the category of “wicked problems”, but I’d like to give it a spin sometime …
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I see. Anyway, Rivva is one of the really cool things happening in the German blogosphere. Keep it up!
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Thx, I will
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