Get in on the limited beta of new suggestion engine, Zite

Late last year, I took a look at how search services were being affected by the unchecked growth of ultra-digested, 140-character-or-less news blips. In my research, I talked to a Vancouver-based startup called Worio that was tackling the difficult problem of creating a search engine that "understood" what kind of data was important to the user.

Now, the team is working on creating a new content discovery service, which it is calling Zite.

Zite harvests keywords and themes from your Twitter feed and Delicious bookmarks and turns them into a "follow list." The same way you follow individuals on Twitter, you follow keywords on Zite, and you can customize your list to be as long or short as you like.

Based upon this follow list, Zite then creates a news feed of articles it thinks you will like. The results are broken into two lists: articles published within the last 24 hours, and articles that are more than a day old.

It's a super new service, and the Zite team wants your help, so they've given us 50 beta invites which will let you get in and access Zite directly right now.

Only the first 50 readers to click that link will be able to participate in this round of testing, so click quickly!