Kevin Burton has released the first beta of his wild new RSS aggregator, NewsMonster. NewsMonster integrates into Mozilla, so it runs on Linux, Windows and OS X, and has hooks for a bunch of really keen features, including a reputation economy (float articles interesting to your buddies to the top of your inbox), micropayments for distributed patronage (use reputation data to assess the worthiness of various "blegging" efforts), and Semantic Web hooks for things like FOAFNet and calendar integration.
This is just the first beta, but Kevin's working hard on improving the system, adding features and fixing bugs very quickly. What a cool project — and I'm chuffed to see the use of the term Whuffie in the documentation.
(Thanks, Kevin!)
