FeedHub adds extension and features, but aideRSS is close behind

I got a ping from FeedHub last night that they are adding a Firefox extension and a raft of new features.  Frank Gruber got the post up today, which is good because I’m still trying to find all my brain cells from blowing my nose all the time from this cold:

The FeedHub update will tackle:

• Streamlining Feedback Interactions - They have added thumbs up / down buttons on every post to let you rate its relevance and launched a FeedHub Firefox extension.   
• Relevancy Improvements - Now is leveraging Wikipedia for the taxonomy of its category memes, and a new meme that recommends posts with significantly more comments than are typical for other posts from that source - read Paul Ogilve’s post for more details.
• Infrastructure / Scalability Enhancements - upgraded its Dojo toolkit to improve performance and position FeedHub for future front-end enhancements.

Source: FeedHub Updates Feed Personalizer : Somewhat Frank :: web tech life :: blog by Frank Gruber

Here is a little movie of what the extension does:

You all know that I live and die by my RSS feeds.  Heck I’m looking at my FeedDemon icon in the corner of my screen and I’m getting twitchy because I know there is stuff I haven’t read yet.

Both FeedHub and my fav aideRSS are doing great things for RSS junkies like me.  Marshall Kirkpatrick’s DEMO feed through aideRSS was awesome last week.  Talk about sorting the wheat from the chaff.

So while FeedHub announced their extension today, I’ve been in the private beta of a similar extension for aideRSS for a couple weeks now.  I won’t tip my hand with their features, but both of them do something very similar … help you tailor your feeds to get the information you want.

I haven’t checked my FeedHub feed in a while, mostly because aideRSS has been giving me better results.  Will I compare them again?  Sure.  Cause I’m all about the information…

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