Findory.com

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Findory.com was a news and blog aggregation website that utilized collaborative filtering to provide users with personalized newsfeeds and news e-mails. Findory collected a history of which articles a user clicked, a form of passive filtering, to recommend articles preferred by similar users[1]. Along with news and blogs, While it existed, Findory provided personalized podcasts and video, personalized web search, and a variety of access methods, including a REST API, e-mail subscription, and mobile phone access.

Findory was founded in 2004 by Amazon.com alumnus Greg Linden[2]. In January of 2007, Linden announced that he would be abandoning new work on Findory, and that he planned to shut it down. [3] Although the announced November 1, 2007 termination date was briefly postponed, the service ultimately ceased on November 24, 2007.

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