Readburner adds Digg-like aggregation to Shared Google Reader items
Posted on January 22nd, 2008 at 9:18
Via the ever-informative Lifehacker.com, news of a new (?) online feed aggregation service called ReadBurner.
Simple concept: add the URL of your Google Reader shared items RSS feed to their database and then every time you select an item for your Shared Items list, it will be added to the stats; automatically aggregating the most-shared items across its readership and creating an on-the-spot zeitgeist for Readburner's homepage.
Early days yet, apparently, but it will be interesting to see how this takes off. Unfortunately, I can already think of one way that less-than-noble marketeers and pro-bloggers could game this particular service (multi Google-account sign ups to share the same item a number of times) but hopefully that will be too little return for too much effort, at least for the time being.
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