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I haven't done much with Yahoo! Pipes since it was released back in February. I posted about it back then. It has come a long way and seems much more robust.

I decided I'd create an aggregated feed of various tech news sites. The Pipe combines the feeds then filters the feeds based on Title, Description, and content analysis. The Content Analysis module analyzes the text within each feed item. It will try to find significant words or phrases. Filtering on the content analysis should help filter out similar stories so that I can concentrate on reading more new content. The down side to that is that sometimes you want lots of articles on the same topic because then you get other perspectives. Not that big a problem because the browser is a click away and if I want more I'll find more.

What might be interesting is a reverse of that where you get some kind of count based on content analysis. It would work even better if you could look at a larger time frame of feeds. Like, say, a day. This would essentially be a meme tracker, showing you commonly talked about topics. I haven't found a way for Pipes to do that yet.

Here is my Tech News Aggregator by TechLifeWeb.com

Uses the following feeds:
TechCrunch
TechMeme
eWeek
BBC News - Technology
News.Com
Wired - Technology
TechDirt
PCWorld
PC Magazine
ExtermeTech
Engadget
Gizmodo
Federated Media Tech Blogs

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