How is Feedity different?

I received a few e-mail’s in the past 3-4 months from people asking me how is Feedity any different from its competitors (like PonyFish, Page2RSS, Feed43, FeedYes etc.). Personally, I think that PonyFish (which leverage’s from AJAX) is quite a well designed web-app among all, and I guess all these “webpage-to-RSS” services work well in their own way.

However, Feedity is fundamentally different from all of them in five aspects:

1. Feedity is free for personal use, and will remain so ever after!

2. Feedity is totally database-less (i.e. no database server used at all, atleast till now, which means no overhead of DAL, faster processing, and a light footprint).

3. Feedity has a proprietry data mining algorithm, which has been designed on the principles of self-learning agents.

4. Feedity doesn’t need the user to have prior knowledge of regular expressions to build data patterns for scraping (data-to-information). Feedity does all the hard-work for you!

5. Feedity doesn’t require any sign-up’s or login’s!

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Hi Julian,

You’ll find a lot of technical papers on self-learning capabilities of electronic agents on the internet. The “self-learning” feature of an agent/bot highlights its capability to make logical inferences out of each process, and then use this inference in future scenarios to make independent decisions and logical operations.

For example: an agent can be created to “learn” the online shopping interests of users; and then “recommend” (from drawing inferences) relevant shopping items. Amazon does this for their “People who bought this item, also bought these items …” section. Such agents are designed largely for monitoring user behavior through data-mining.

Here are some resources you’ll find worth reading:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_agent

http://www.aaai.org/AITopics/html/agents.html

http://www.design-ireland.net/.....0000000002

Now, put this real-world example in a “agent-driven” scenario: http://www.nilkanth.com/archiv.....arding-it/

Cheers