The Personal Bee :: Beekeeping Basics Annotated
Beekeeping Basics
The design goal of The Personal Bee is to help users extract topics of recent interest from a collection of RSS feeds, a "Bee edition." The topics of recent interest cannot simply be the most frequently cited topics, but rather topics that are new and/or "rare." Because of a Bee edition's dependency on historical information, its usefulness tends to improve over time.
Technically speaking, the Personal Bee is a basic statistics engine mixed in with a bunch of common sense. A keyphrase parser is used to read each RSS article and extracts and ranks each embedded keyphrase. This method is a form of auto-tagging. In contrast, web services like Delicious and Rojo require an active tagging community. Auto-tagging is not better than community tagging. However, auto-tagging provides a good starting for community taggers. That being said, the Personal Bee will mostly employ tags for personal filing of articles, similar to Gmail's labeling functionality.
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