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Idea: Take reading material from your Instapaper & Twitter (more services later) and suggest you the best ones out of all to read.

I don't have time to read 1000 links that cross my way and most of them I miss out. So just gives me the best and improves suggestions based on reading habits.

I've the factors I decided to rank the articles. Can mail you the flow-chart or something?

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Do you have an algorithm for this, or an app idea? Some folks at the MIT Media Lab worked on this concept in the early 90s. See for example http://web.media.mit.edu/~lieber/Lieberary/Letizia/AIA/AIA.h.... I mention it only because it might be relevant intellectual property; I don't claim to be up to date in that area.

I have the parameters for it sorted out. So basically the concept for algo is in place but not implemented yet.

I am not sure about IP, that ways somebody might have concept of commenting IP'ed. =/

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