RSSmeme Learns to Speak Social Bookmarking
Recently, I wrote about an update to RSSmeme where the developer, Benjamin Golub, had added FriendFeed as a source to track shared stores. Just tapping in to this API gave his app an instant crawl speed increase, recognition of shares would start to appear within minutes instead of hours.
Ben has not sat still in the intervening week, though. Utilizing the friendfeed API and his brand of Django programming wizardry, he has taught his shared-story app to leverage even more services to get a better buzz count on current articles. Essentially, RSSmeme will now look at all the social bookmarking services that friendfeed supports and allow those shares to contribute to an article’s popularity!
These services include:
- Del.icio.us
- Digg
- Diigo
- FriendFeed
- Google Shared Stuff
- Ma.gnolia
- Mister Wong
- Mixx
- Netvibes
- StumbleUpon
Reddit(not yet, maybe soon)
Of course, RSSmeme is still 100% democratic – if someone links up a story on more than one service, those duplicates will be filtered out.
I imagine there are a lot of folks out there who will bookmark stories on one service exclusively and don’t even use the others. Maybe some folks out there who love their desktop-based feed reader and so have been left out of the count until now.
Well, now they are counted. Even stuff that has been shared using the friendfeed bookmarklet!
The best part of these enhancements? You don’t have to change a thing about how you share your bookmarks and stories. Just keep doing what you are doing, and go visit RSSmeme to see what comes out on top!
For the full details, be sure to stop by the newly-launched RSSmeme Blog as well. See you there!
Categorised as: Followup, Related