Abstract: A method for user-specific display of syndication feed entries uses a taxonomy, a user-specific foreground corpus of bookmarks, and a background corpus of feed entries. User-specific book-marks are received. Each bookmark provides a natural-language description characterizing a bookmark resource. The natural-language descriptions are classified to determine one or more bookmark topics for each bookmark. The topics are maintained in the taxonomy. The bookmark topics are each associated with accumulators in the user-specific foreground corpus. Each book-mark is accumulated to the accumulators corresponding to each of its topics. Feed syndication entries are received and similarly classified according to associated natural-language descriptions. Entry topics are associated with accumulators in the background corpus. A user-specific weight is determined for each entry by aggregating the accumulators corresponding to the entry topics for the foreground and background corpora.

Abstract: Declarative dispatch is a computer-implemented method for processing a database represented by a collection of declarations. Computational services responsive to notification of declarations are provided. Each declaration includes a subject entity, a relation, and, optionally, an object entity. The relation is associated with one or more of the provided computational services. Upon receiving a declaration, a notification of the received declaration is dispatched to each computational service associated with the received declaration's relation. The notified computational service may process the subject entity, relation, and optional object entity in response to the dispatched notification. Received declarations may be cached, and dispatch of a received declaration may be suppressed upon retrieval of the received declaration from the cache.