Om Malik reports this morning that Seattle’s Greg Linden, the founder of the news aggregation service, Findory, is shutting down the service on November 1.
Greg, an early believer in the personalization of news and info, had this to say from his personal blog.
Some day, online newspapers will focus on your interests, building you your own unique, customized front page of news. Some day, search engines will learn from what you do to help you find what you need. Some day, your computer will adapt to your needs to help with the task at hand. Some day, information overload will be tamed.
But not today. Findory will be shutting down on November 1. The website will no longer carry news, blogs, videos, podcasts, or favorites.
With Findory picking up my feeds and LexBlog client feeds for the last few years, I followed the aggregator with great interest. Thought there was good potential for the personalized syndication of law content via Findory. Even hoped there may some way to leverage the technology after Greg announced in January he was going to wind things up.
Greg’s been one of the folks here in Seattle whose brain I would love to pick. Greg wrote the recommendation engine used by Amazon.com and later led the software team that developed Amazon’s personalization systems. His vision of delivering the information people want from whom they wanted it was ahead of the times. Up for a cup of coffee Greg?