Fever feed reader
Fever, a new feedreader by Shaun Inman, looks rather brilliant: you provide a selection of essential feeds (your must reads) and supplemental feeds (the high volume, high noise, low signal feeds). Fever then uses the supplemental feeds to identify stories and links which create a lot of buzz across all subscribed feeds and ranks news items accordingly. I’m already distinguishing between must reads and a river of noise (y’know, for those really slow news days), so this approach seems reasonable to me. In contrast to other feed readers, with Fever your feed reading experience (supposedly) improves as the number of your subscriptions grows. In practice it’ll all depend on the quality of the ranking algorithms obviously.
Fever’s distribution model is interesting as well: it’s a web application, but instead of a subscription based hosted service, you buy a license to host and run it on your own server, like traditional desktop software. Unfortunately there’s no trial version available and i’m not quite convinced to buy software just because of an interesting concept, with no way to assess the quality of implementation.
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