Comments on: Another thing Google haven’t thought of yet – filtering http://brendancooper.com/2007/08/07/another-thing-google-havent-thought-of-yet/ Social media, mobile advertising, copywriting, and everything in between Sat, 26 May 2012 09:56:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jim Andrus http://brendancooper.com/2007/08/07/another-thing-google-havent-thought-of-yet/#comment-1095 Wed, 08 Aug 2007 15:44:30 +0000 http://thefriendlyghost.wordpress.com/2007/08/07/another-thing-google-havent-thought-of-yet/#comment-1095 We have created a high powered version of your suggested filters we call Smart News Filters. Indeed, our clients do use our news/blog filters for Google News alerts. We at Netro City (www.netrocity.com) are in process of introducing a thin/free version. We are looking for Alpha users.

]]> By: The Friendly Ghost http://brendancooper.com/2007/08/07/another-thing-google-havent-thought-of-yet/#comment-1092 Wed, 08 Aug 2007 12:09:06 +0000 http://thefriendlyghost.wordpress.com/2007/08/07/another-thing-google-havent-thought-of-yet/#comment-1092 I just did a bit more digging around and came up with some interesting alternatives from this page.

There’s a script you can embed within Google Reader but only in Firefox. I know Firefox is cool – I have used it, and Thunderbird for email – but a lot of people at work I know use IE exclusively, so that’s not a worker. Plus it’s not an easy solution, and ease of implementation and use is critical.

Yahoo Pipes looks like it can do just about anything, and I’ve heard about it before but never used it. I played around with it but got a bit lost. I would need to spend time figuring this out but I have a feeling it’s a bit overspecced for my needs.

However, Feedshake looks interesting. It seems to be a Feedburner-with-filter, and it was easy to set up (although the website can be a little flaky). The feed doesn’t currently have any items in it but I’m prepared to wait and see if stuff comes through.

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