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NewsGator adds RSS PostRank

Posted Apr 18th 2008 8:00AM by Brad Linder
Filed under: Internet, Web services, web 2.0

Newsgator PostRank
NewsGator and AideRSS have partnered to add PostRank features to NewsGator's online RSS feed reader. PostRank is basically determined by looking at each item in a feed and determining its popularity based on factors such as how many comments it has received, how many other sites link to that post, how many times it has been saved to del.icio.us, or voted up on Digg. Each article is then assigned a rank between 1 and 10.

NewsGator users can now choose to sort their feeds according to PostRank, which will display the most popular items first, followed by less popular items. Of course, the system doesn't work very well if you're primarily interested in breaking news, as it takes time for an article to become popular. But if you just want to read the top news and skip the rest, PostRank can save you a lot of time.

AideRSS maintains its own website where you can enter any RSS feed to get its PostRank scores. Or you can install a Firefox plugin that will add PostRank to Google Reader. But thanks to the NewsGator integration, you won't need to visit a separate web site, download a plugin, or even know who AideRSS is to take advantage of their PostRank system.
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AideRSS Firefox extension: Read just the top stories in Google Reader

Posted Apr 1st 2008 5:00PM by Brad Linder
Filed under: Internet, Beta

AideRSS
We're pretty proud of everything we write around here, and we kind of think you should take the time to read each article posted on Download Squad. But we understand you're busy and you might not always have time to read every article on this or other sites. Last year, AideRSS offered a way to read just the top stories by assigning a PostRank to each article. And now AideRSS has made things even easier by launching a Firefox plugin that works with Google Reader.

How does it work? Basically, AideRSS will scan each item in each feed to find the items with the most comments, votes on Digg, inbound links, tags on del.icio.us and other data. Then the items will be assigned a PostRank from 1-10. What the browser plugin does is display the PostRank next to each item and add a filter box to the top of your Google Reader window. Only want to see posts with a PostRank of 3 or higher? Select "Good," from the drop-down menu. All the ones and 2s will be fade into the background. You can filter out even more posts by selecting "Great," or "Best."

The AideRSS Firefox plugin is in private beta, but the first 50 Download Squad readers to sign up by clicking on the "Read" link below can get in on the beta today.
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Read only the most popular blogs posts with aideRSS

Posted Jul 25th 2007 6:00PM by Brad Linder
Filed under: Internet, Web services, Social Software, web 2.0

aideRSS
If you're overwhelmed by the sheer amount of posts on blogs like Download Squad, Engadget, and The Unofficial Apple Weblog, you're not alone. The developers of aideRSS want to help. The service lets you focus your attention first on the most popular posts in an RSS feed.

AideRSS determines which posts are most popular by examining the level of social activity for each post. For example if an article receives a lot of comments, that increases its "PostRank." If it's submitted to Digg, del.icio.us, or Bloglines, the PostRank goes up. Technorati links also help.

Now you can sort through your feeds by reading just the stories with the highest pagerank. You can peruse individual feeds or import a group of feeds to view together. If you submit an RSS feed that aideRSS hasn't seen before, be prepared to wait a few minutes. But if you enter a popular feed like Download Squad's you should get results immediately, whether you sign up for an account or not.

The system's not foolproof. For example some of the most commented on posts aren't necessarily the most interesting. They might just be controversial, or in some cases, contests.

[via Read/WriteWeb]
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