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RSSmeme vs. Readburner – Which Do You Use?
May 9th, 2008 by (jeff)isageek

I am a huge user of Google Reader, Shared Items, Linkblogs, and so on and have been really happy with services like RSSmeme and Readburner that are taking users shared items from google reader and making some great sites in the social news arena…better then sites like digg and mixx in my opinion.

My issue so far though with both of these services has been which do I give my most time to?  Do I use both?  It has been a tough question….but I have to say RSSmeme has taken the lead as of late due to their addition of notes (a new feature within google reader) and also RSSmeme allows you to create a custom rss feed of stories shared via your friends on friendfeed which I think is a really kool little feature to have.

update: as I am writing this post I see where benjamin (who created rssmeme) is looking for someone to write a wordpress plugin that will pull all of the notes for an article out of RSSmeme and onto your blog.

So what do you all think?  Which are you using?  What do you like/dislike?  Lets discuss (or disqus).




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  • I prefer ReadBurner, but I do use both. Right now, RSSmeme is taking the lead with it's new filter tool and Friendfeed filter app too. Great stuff and GO BEN!
  • wow this is great we have had players from both rssmeme and readburner comment on this post! thanks guys and love both of your services.
  • Thanks for being our guest, we truly appreciate it!
  • I just think it's awesome that you think both us and RSSMeme are better than Digg and Mixx and you're using us regularly ;-) We agree - with the new bookmarklet and notes feature (which we'll also integrate soonish) Google Reader is a superior platform to build a social news site around. It's an exciting project to be working on.
  • Nice to hear that you will be integrating the notes into ReadBurner. If you need any tips I'm full of them.
  • And we didn't even have to drop a vowel or add an extra letter!
  • :)
  • I think you know which one I use. Seriously though ReadBurner is also a great project. They've definitely got me beat when it comes to style and PR. I'm biased but I think RSSmeme is ahead in features at the moment.

    It's a bit unfair because ReadBurner is developed by a bunch of guys. I can just out of the blue decide to add a feature into RSSmeme; they can't. That's how I got notes and the API done so fast. The notes took a few hours. The API took most of today but still needs some polishing up.
  • I use RSSmeme exclusively right now. I haven't really dug in to ReadBurner yet.
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