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.
United States of America (Press Release) October 9, 2007 --
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 info@feedhaus.com 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.
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 info@feedhaus.com 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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