Canadian startup AideRSS is one of the coolest things since sliced bread. No, really. That may sound like hyperbole, but it is one of the most useful utilities I’ve come across over the past year. When I first read about developer Ilya Grigorik’s plans for an RSS filtering algorithm in December 2006, my first thought was, “I have to get this guy on the phone and convince him to turn this into a web service.” I procrastinated, but Grigorik didn’t and in July 2007 he launched AideRSS, an RSS filtering application based on his initial PostRank idea [...]