Colin's Corner

Blogline moves beyond RSS

Bloglines, (part of Ask Jeaves which was recently acquired by IAC is one of the largest Web-based aggregators of XML feeds – indexing more than 370 million blog and news feed articles in seven languages). The service is expanding beyond aggregating general-audience blogs and RSS news feeds to enable individuals to receive personal updates.

Bloglines services now include the package tracking shipped via through United Parcel Service Inc., FedEx Corp. and the U.S. Postal Service and it later plans to add personal weather, stock quotes and other types of customized information 

mSpace

mSpace is an interaction model to help explore relationships in information. The idea is to make it easier to parse the web for information. mSpace combines web browser functions, Apple directory browsing functions, google search functions and other functions in an intuitive interface that powers you through to the information you want, even if you don't know very much about the subject matter. mSpace helps people build knowledge from exploring those relationships. mSpace does this by offering several powerful tools for organizing an information space to suit a person's interest: slicing, sorting, swapping, infoViews and preview cues.

Try out the mSpace browser for classical music and consider other applications to which it can be applied. A technical report describing the theory behind their implementation is available.