Ever wonder how to find feeds for a given topic?

FTM! was developed out of a real need to find interesting, high quality feeds for a given topic. Typically, I would add a feed to my RSS reader only if I came across it by chance on another blog. This was not always the best way to find good feeds. There are a number of blog search engines and some directories that are hand crafted. However none of them had a very good listing of popular feeds on different topics. Using FTM! you can now find and directly subscribe to feeds in your bloglines or yahoo account.

How was FTM! created?

Bloglines is a popular feed reader. There are about 83K publicly listed users on bloglines and they have a combined 2,786,687 feed subscriptions. Roughly 35% of these publicly listed users organize their feeds into folders. On an average there are about 20 feeds per folder. By analyzing this data and combining merging folders that are very similar, we have come up with an automatic way of creating a taxonomy of popular topics and make it easy to find feeds that are most relevant to that topic.

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