A new service has just launched and it’s (again) an Australian invention.
I say ‘again’ because research has shown that whilst North Americans were faster on the uptake with Web1.0, we Aussies (per head of population) are more likely to upload to Flickr, YouTube and post/comnment in blogs. But that is all as an aside to what I want to talk about in this post.
Particls has just launched, to rave reviews:
“Particls reduces rivers of news to a trickle”
Mark Jones, Australian Financial Review“Particls is the coolest thing I’ve seen in quite a while”
Marshall Kirkpatrick, TechCrunch“Particls has every chance of becoming a standard”
Michael Mahemoff, Ajaxian“Particls is a powerful app that is going to be a permanent addition to my desktop tools and daily research setup.”
Mark Johnson ,TechZoogle
So what is it and who could benefit?
Well, Particls learns what you care about and alerts you when there’s new information on those subjects.
Particls is not a newsreader, it is an alerts platform. This means that information is displayed ‘while you work on other things’ in a heads-up-display presentation style. In this way you can keep working while staying informed.
Particls is not a gadget/widget engine. Gadgets/Widgets each represent a window into a single source of information (E.g. “the stock quotes widget” displays stock quotes).In contrast, Particls Output Adapters are each designed to consume varying levels of user attention. Particls evaluates an incoming piece of information and gives it a rank of ‘Personal Relevance’ to you, the end user.
- For users: Particls is a filtered news reader or widget that learns what you care about and alerts you to important news and information while you work.
- For bloggers and site owners: Particls allows bloggers and site owners to create a custom version of the application.
I thoroughly recommend you check out their demos to see it all working — it’s really cool tech!
If it helps me deal with rss overload (as it promises to do), then it gets my vote in ‘Lee’s best productivity tools of the year’ alongside ActiveWords.
Hat tip to Madge for the heads-up.
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