Build a personalized, automated news aggregator

I want to do a web based aggregator of news for the caribbean as well as a mobile app. I have no idea what my fisrt step should be though 13 months ago

Baaaaa. 3 years ago

Try helping out with Gregarius http://gregarius.net

It is an open source news aggregator which is highly extensible. 6 years ago

Use http://www.bloglines.com – works great, easy, efficient. 6 years ago

I got about half of the functionality of what bloglines does, and then stopped because I was happy enough with bloglines and didn’t have the time. But it was great hands-on experience with the nitty gritty issues involved with pulling in a variety of real-world data sources & presenting them in a common format. 7 years ago

http://newsbot.msn.com 7 years ago

It’s great fun. My news aggregator kind of sucks, but I still use it because I’m too annoyed with Bloglines. 7 years ago

totally. I was the first PM on the newsbot project with Josh. It was great fun. 7 years ago

I went to work at Microsoft Corporation in 2003 to build a competitor to Google News. The whole experience was something of an experiment, for me, for the team I worked with, and the product we built. Automated, personalized news is a bit of a solution in search of a problem. I think the product we built has tons of potential, but it is likely well a head of what customers care the most about when they look for news.

You can check out the site at newsbot.msn.com

• Belgium
• France
• Germany
• Ireland
• Italy
• Spain
• Switzerland – French?
• Switzerland – German?
• United?Kingdom
• Latin?America
• United?States
• US – Spanish?
• South?Africa
• India
• Indonesia
• Malaysia
• Philippines
• Singapore

Some of the highlights of the project? Well it was a great team, that was willing to let a new guy work with them and inject some new chops into the MSN way of doing things. I think we both learned a lot from each other. It was fun fighting the battles inside MSN, for the most part. It was awesome to meet Michael Kinsley and hear about everything he had hoped to do with Slate. What else can I say? If you ever have a chance to build a personalized news aggregator, you should definitely do it.

I quit Microsoft to work on this crazy idea where you share your ideas with the world and people help each other. It’s called 43 Things! 7 years ago