We’ve just had our first round of BETA testers around and testing ingesti and the results are positive. We are now working away fixing bugs and adding some more features to the system. Check back here for updates on when the next BETA test will be.
John Martin - Founder
We’ve been developing a way for users to control their customised news page and we think that what we have done is quite clever… check out the screenshot see what you think:
You can tell the system how much you like each category/tag and then the system automatically adjusts your news page accordingly!
Neat isn’t it!
John Martin - Founder
I had a few emails through enquiring about the ‘tagging’ element of ingesti. This is how tagging will work:
- Our RSS spider tags articles using an algorythmn to decide what the content is
- Users can further tag an article with what they think is neccessary. Here’s the tagging tool:
That should answer the questions we have received so far!
John Martin - Founder
Some of you may be wondering what ingesti actually looks like? We’ll here are a couple of screenshots of early ALPHA versions running… (the current version is running slightly differently than these screenshots):
Interestingly ALPHA 1 used “drag and drop” navigation to add items to your profile, but this was binned because it was too much of a useability issue.
John Martin - Founder
You can now sign-up to ingesti for the BETA using ingesti.com’s signup.
Just give us your email address and we’ll notify you when and if you get on the list for the first BETA.
John Martin - Founder
ingesti is your free personalised news web service. It uses RSS and the wisdom of a collective mind (as well as a computer algorythm) to produce a automated news tracking system. You build a profile of news that you like and we’ll give you stories that you didn’t know about that you will be interested in. However the great thing about ingesti is that it isn’t just for your web browser!
We are developing web browser plug-ins that should be released along side the second private BETA that will take ingesti away from simply using ingesti as a web site. These plug-ins (currently FireFox 1.5 and Internet Explorer 6 are planned to be supported) will allow you to browse news websites like you would usually and add them to your profile with the click of a button.
The ingesti team are well on the way to announcing some more of the exciting features in the first private BETA.
BETA signup coming soon…
John Martin - Founder