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If you’ve ever shopped at Amazon you’ve seen the “Customers who bought this item also bought…” section where they recommend related products. I’ve never met anyone who doesn’t think this is a good idea. In fact, if I come across a book or band that I really like one of the first places I go is Amazon to see if I can find something similar.
I can’t believe it’s 2007 and we don’t have a similar service that recommends blogs based on the blogs you currently subscribe to.
The only RSS readers I have experience with are Google Reader and Bloglines, but I’m really surprised neither of them do this. They have all the data, now they just have to mine it. Can’t they bother hiring away a couple Amazon engineers to get this done? I really think adding this feature would set an RSS Reader head and shoulders above the others.
Maybe I’m just ignorant. Is there an RSS Reader that does this already? If so let me know and you can bet they’ll have one more user very shortly.
If a reader isn’t going to step up to do it, I’d expect a service like MyBlogLog to implement it. At MyBlogLog I can see the other people who subscribe to the same blogs that I do. I can also go and look to see which blogs each of them subscribe to. I just want MyBlogLog to save me a couple hundred hours of work and tell me the blogs that I should be checking out.
I’d build something like this myself, but my guess is that as soon as it started to become popular the other services I mentioned would realize they already have the data that I was trying to collect and I’d be out of business.
Oh well. I guess I’ll just have to file this in the “do I have to think of everything?” department.
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I have the same complaint.
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It would be possible to implement a system that creates a list of blogs and checks which ones a viewer has read by applying images (via css) to the list’s a:visited property.
If i have visited slashdot
and your list has a link to slashdot which is styled with an image in the background for the a:visited property my browser will request that image because I’ve been to the site.
track which images are loaded and you know where I’ve been on the net.
The list could be rotated with different sites per page view and cookies could track your visit through the session building up your browsing history as you go.
It’s probably a bit too big brother for some people but it seems like it could be a useful technique.
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