October 10, 2007; 04:24 AM Feedhaus (http://www.feedhaus.com)
announced today that it has released its social news site into public
alpha to deliver real-time news, images and videos that are personally
relevant.
Leveraging the power of news feeds and the flexibility of
user-generated tags, Feedhaus offers a unique, real-time view of
today’s hottest digital media including personalized online news items,
images and videos. It gives people the ability to tag and follow their
favorite RSS or ATOM feeds from news sites or blogs in real-time so
that they can be the first to know about breaking news.
Feedhaus is a powerful new real-time social media website that
aggregates content from thousands of user-submitted feeds and tags,
offering a never-before-seen mashup of social feed aggregation,
user-generated tagging, social networking and rich personalization.
Following an extensive private alpha, Feedhaus is now available to the
general public, providing for the first time a place to filter out and
discover "what’s hot now" across thousands of content sources and
topics of general or personal interest.
"Until now, I couldn’t find a good way to keep up with the wealth of
news, blogs and other content sources on the internet," said Chris
Bucchere, founder, President and CEO at Feedhaus. "Feedhaus gives you
the power to tag feed-based content and design your own ‘My Feedhaus’
pages that deliver specific, personalized news, images and videos to
you exactly the way you want them, in real-time."
Invented and developed by a team of enterprise software veterans with
deep internet and intranet portal experience, Feedhaus is led by CEO,
President and founder Chris Bucchere, formerly Lead Engineer at
Plumtree Software, the market-leading enterprise portal software
company that was acquired by BEA Systems (NASDAQ: BEAS) in 2005.
Privately held and personally funded, Feedhaus was built by a small
team of developers in a matter of months using open source Java
technologies such as Rome, Lucene and Apache Tomcat along with advanced
Javascript libraries to enable real-time publishing of news, images and
video via an Ajax-like technology called Comet.
"Ajax has its place in the industry and we use it throughout the site,"
says Feedhaus developer Andrew Bays. "However, Comet allows developers
to provide real-time updates to tags and detail pages without any user
intervention, providing a whole new twist to our Rich Internet
Application (RIA)."
This real-time updating technology, which Feedhaus has dubbed
"ActiveCloud (TM)," shows tags pulsating and growing in size when
they’re active and shaking and shrinking when activity slows down,
giving readers perspective on what topics are currently newsworthy
along with a "top story" news ticker to show current breaking news
updates. Feedhaus also captures a daily news snapshot, allowing readers
to drag a slider bar backwards in time and find out what made the news
yesterday, last week, last month or beyond.
Feedhaus also provides a rich set of tools to allow you to click and
drag tags to create your own personalized feed-driven news site. Known
as "My Feedhaus," this part of the site gives readers the ability to
target and follow only the topics in which they are interested.
Feedhaus already offers integration with the popular social networking site Facebook (http://www.facebook.com),
allowing Feedhaus readers who are also Facebook users to share tag
clouds on their Facebook profiles. More social networking features,
including the ability to track view and track other people’s public
ActiveCloud (TM) tag clouds, are being planned for an upcoming release.
About Feedhaus
Feedhaus is a privately-held company dedicated to providing real-time,
personalized content from a wide variety of feeds, tagged and filtered
down to only "what’s hot now" for a set of personalized topics.
Feedhaus users engage in an intuitive experience of submitting and
tagging feeds and narrowing their interests to only those topics that
reflect their passions. Be the first to know at http://www.feedhaus.com or send an email to [email protected] for more information.
Feedhaus is a trademark of bdg, llc. in the United States and/or other
countries. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are property
of their respective holders.
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