Jack Vinsen writes about future aggregators:

“I can see them reaching out to other services and pull that information in to the display of articles. I suspect the web-based aggregators are in a better position to take advantage of this than are the desktop based ones.” (from Knowledge Jolt with Jack - “Mashing up Aggregators“)

John Tropea of Library Clips also has some inspirations:

“Either way, ranking items in your RSS reader by authority in the blogosphere or by your personal statistics is another way to read your subscriptions instead of latest entries as they happen.” (from Library Clips - “Authority in your RSS Reader“)

As it turns out, BlogBridge is already experimenting in this area. Check this out:

• When you add a feed to BlogBridge, it will try to rate how good it is for you, and display it as 1 to 5 SilverStarz. One of the factors that will give a Feed a lot of Starz is their Technorati inlinks rating.
• If you ask BlogBridge to analyze a Feed to look to other Feeds it might point to, it is using Technorati, Syndic8 and in fact BlogBridge’s own service to figure that out.
• When you tag a Feed or Article in BlogBridge, it can use Del.icio.us as a place to save the tags
• When you ask BlogBridge for a “SmartFeed” of photos tagged a certain way, or articles related to another blog, it is using Flickr and Findory, respectively, to assist in that query.

So it’s mashing up big time. But why Non-PC? I meant Non-Politically Correct P.C. mashups are web based and use Ajax. I wouldn’t be surprised if the hard-core Mashupees and Ajaxians would quibble.

For BlogBridge it only makes sense to take advantage of the resources on the internet, weave them together with XML-RPC, but hide the whole mish-mash-up from the user. So much that our users are not (nor do they need to be) aware of this.

But it is quite cool, IIDSSM.

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