ReadBurner : aggregating google shared items
I am a HUGE google reader fan and use it daily and hourly on top of that. I recently started sharing items that I found going through my hundreds of feeds and creating a linkblog that could be shared to all my readers.
Google reader helps me fuel my rss and information addictions but of course I am always on the search for more! That is where the new site ReadBurner comes in…basically aggregating google shared items from all over the net…showing what stories are currently the most popular now, this week, and all time.
The funny thing about the service is it is in the very very very early alpha stages but was discovered and outed 
of course a big plus for us! On a side note with it being in alpha it already seems like a very good web app that will only get better.
Here is a note from the developer Alexander Marktl
Hi folks!
Due to a mistake my hobby project Readburner got leaked today. Louis Gray somehow found my site, which is hosted on an Amazon EC2 server (heck I didn’t even had registered a domain name and don’t know if I’m happy with my codename). This site is obviously still in very early development. If traffic comes it will clearly go down. Moreover my parsing technolgy is still not tested, so don’t wonder if strange things happens.I’m not gonna close the site anyway. In the Internet you cannot hide anything that’s leaked, so be it. Let’s see is as an experiment how fast a site can spread through the Google Reader shared items, which is what ReadBurner aims to aggregate.
If you are into checking out linkblogs, sharing items in google, or just finding those new tech stories make sure you check out ReadBurner.
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Louis Gray
I was lucky to find ReadBurner before it was meant to launch, and clearly, it’s caused Alexander all sorts of unexpected attention. Everything looks great so far, and I hope he keeps working on it.
“Discovered and outed”.
He literally had no contact info on the site when it started. What was I supposed to do?
Glad you like it. I know I do.
Jan 8th, 2008
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