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Benjamin Golub's Blog: Some Google Reader Notes Statistics

  • azeem · 1 year ago
    Some of the RSSmeme entries have a 'Shared By Name' followed by their Comments in the beginning... These are quite annoying, they appear within blockquotes in the feed.
  • Benjamin Golub · 1 year ago
    Yes it is annoying. Google is placing that message into the content of any story that is shared with a note. I'll look into a solution but I'm worried that they'd all be too CPU intensive (parsing HTML for that blockquote) to be practical.
  • mihai · 1 year ago
    Actually, we expose the note in a separate namespaced element if you tweak your requests. You can see this in the first item of my shared items:

    http://www.google.com/reader/public/atom/user/1...

    To see the annotation separately, you can add a ann=false query param:

    http://www.google.com/reader/public/atom/user/1...

    Then an "annotation" element in the Reader namespace appears, like so:

    <gr:annotation>
    <content type="html">....</content>
    <author gr:user-id="14548369432350969777" gr:profile-id="111567061469336027617">
    <name>Mihai</name>
    </author>
    </gr:annotation>

    Hope this helps.
  • Benjamin Golub · 1 year ago
    This does help! Already fixed this in RSSmeme. Now you won't see the note in the content anymore. Thanks Mihai! Is there some documentation anywhere?
  • Phil Glockner · 1 year ago
    Not only do I like the fact that you are starting to tabulate statistics on notes already, but that you have a GR developer following your blog. Sweet.
  • Benjamin Golub · 1 year ago
    I think it's pretty sweet that Mihai commented here too.
  • Scobleizer · 1 year ago
    Damn, someone else shared more items than I did? Heheh. I love the new Google Notes stats.
  • Benjamin Golub · 1 year ago
    Someone did indeed share more than you. I'll run some more queries after a week has gone by to see how things change. The frontpage of RSSmeme is still full of stories with notes. Other languages are sharing notes too!
  • Marianne · 1 year ago
    Great work on all this. I love that you can follow other gReader notes on rssmeme.com. I've always been sold on the relevance factor in social bookmarking. Even though a user can make notes in a del.icio.us post, Shared Google Notes makes it so much more personal.
  • Benjamin Golub · 1 year ago
    Thanks for using RSSmeme!
  • Phil Glockner · 1 year ago
    Ok, small feature enhancement request. In the "Most Popular Stories From Friends Of (user) In The Last 24 Hours" RSS feed, you insert how many times the story has been shared, but not how many notes the story has. Could you add that?
  • Benjamin Golub · 1 year ago
    That feed is still on the old feed framework; not using the new API. But I'll note this and fix it when that feed is migrated.
  • Phil Glockner · 1 year ago
    Thanks again, Benjamin. Appreciate the fast response, as always!
  • Benjamin Golub · 1 year ago
    That feed is now on the new framework. Still doesn't solve your problem but I'd suggest switching your RSS feed over to this URL: http://www.rssmeme.com/friendfeed/INSERT_FRIEND....

    But if you really want the notes the json output format has them; not exactly pretty to look at though.
  • Phil Glockner · 1 year ago
    Ok, will do. Thanks.