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Re: ReadBurner: Google Shared Items Memetracker

SettlementBoard — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:34:50 -0000

All the feeds that I am interested in are full of spam.

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Re: ReadBurner: Google Shared Items Memetracker

Tribal Wars — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:29:25 -0000

I think its an excellent idea - much better then the other comments make it out to be.

Re: ReadBurner: Google Shared Items Memetracker

alexmarktl — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:43:33 -0000

@Aviv

Privacy concerns are sometimes much overhyped.

We are listening too much to some "important" people that cry out because they're on Google Street view but at the same time have uploaded tons of photos to flickr.

Remember the discussion around Facebook's beacon "issue", then check this out:
http://blog.digitalbackcoun...

Re: ReadBurner: Google Shared Items Memetracker

alexmarktl — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:31:09 -0000

@jan

on my feedback blog ( http://readburner.wordpress... ) others have requested similar features. Seems like this something people really want...

Re: ReadBurner: Google Shared Items Memetracker

Aviv — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:42:35 -0000

@Alexander: best of luck to you! As you collect more and more shared feeds, the challenge will be in the presentation of the items. It may not seem like a problem right now with ~ 30 shared feeds, but with thousands of them in the database you may very well end up with a del.icio.us or Digg clone (averaging out, etc.)

We use Google shared feeds and other "attention data" sources for our recommendation algorithm and other parts of the service. Technically speaking I could provide you with thousands of Google shared feeds that we crawl on a regular basis, but I'm not sure if this could backfire... While they are available to the public and can be tracked by anyone with an RSS reader, I remain cautious simply because of the privacy concerns raised during the holidays by some users. Feel free to check back with me in a couple of weeks and I'll reconsider.

Going back to my first point - from having played with feed data (and specifically Google shared feeds) for over a year now, full time, in every possible shape and form, I can tell you that by offering nothing more than a simple algorithm to rank those shared feeds you end up with a mixture of Digg, Techmeme, and del.icio.us.

Re: ReadBurner: Google Shared Items Memetracker

Jan Horna — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:24:13 -0000

@Alexander,

definitely useful! I would appreciate if I could pick up my friend-feeders so I can build my own specific feed cloud that would match the best to my interests.

Cheers from Brno, Czech Rep. I am just around the corner :-)

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alexmarktl — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:34:22 -0000

@rocksane:

got your point. The most important things will definetly be to find out a good way to present the data that is coming. But first I'm focusing on getting as many linkblogs as possible and making the feed updater work ...

Re: ReadBurner: Google Shared Items Memetracker

rocksane — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:24:39 -0000

The idea seems cool at first.. but if you think about it, it really is useless, especially because as time goes by more and more run-of-the-mill linkblogs will populate it. Will Scoble be ranked higher? If so - it's as rigged as Techmeme is. If not - it's ass useless as Digg is. Lose-lose situation my friends...

Re: ReadBurner: Google Shared Items Memetracker

Louis Gray — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:50:08 -0000

It's certainly not useless. This site, if populated with many influential feeds, could help organize the popular news of the day, in a cross between TechMeme and Digg. It's something many of us have been asking Google Reader to do, without success. That one guy, in his spare time, could get an application this far forward, when Google seemingly can't or won't do it, is pretty amazing. We're enthusiastic to watch this grow.

As for Mark's Feed, anybody's shared feed can be submitted. So make sure yours is!

Re: ReadBurner: Google Shared Items Memetracker

Steve — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:36:02 -0000

Well, i think this service is pretty useless.