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Re: Some Google Reader Notes Statistics

Phil Glockner — Mon, 12 May 2008 09:33:05 -0000

Ok, will do. Thanks.

Re: Some Google Reader Notes Statistics

Benjamin Golub — Mon, 12 May 2008 08:10:13 -0000

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/frie....

But if you really want the notes the json output format has them; not exactly pretty to look at though.

Re: Some Google Reader Notes Statistics

Phil Glockner — Sat, 10 May 2008 11:36:02 -0000

Thanks again, Benjamin. Appreciate the fast response, as always!

Re: Some Google Reader Notes Statistics

Benjamin Golub — Sat, 10 May 2008 10:40:47 -0000

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.

Re: Some Google Reader Notes Statistics

Phil Glockner — Sat, 10 May 2008 10:24:33 -0000

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?

Re: Some Google Reader Notes Statistics

Benjamin Golub — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:46:09 -0000

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!

Re: Some Google Reader Notes Statistics

Benjamin Golub — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:44:35 -0000

Thanks for using RSSmeme!

Re: Some Google Reader Notes Statistics

Marianne — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:41:06 -0000

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.

Re: Some Google Reader Notes Statistics

Scobleizer — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:09:45 -0000

Damn, someone else shared more items than I did? Heheh. I love the new Google Notes stats.

Re: Some Google Reader Notes Statistics

Benjamin Golub — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:21:38 -0000

I think it's pretty sweet that Mihai commented here too.

Re: Some Google Reader Notes Statistics

Phil Glockner — Thu, 08 May 2008 11:32:23 -0000

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.

Re: Some Google Reader Notes Statistics

Benjamin Golub — Thu, 08 May 2008 11:24:56 -0000

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?

Re: Some Google Reader Notes Statistics

mihai — Thu, 08 May 2008 11:18:03 -0000

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/reade...

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

http://www.google.com/reade...

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.

Re: Some Google Reader Notes Statistics

Benjamin Golub — Thu, 08 May 2008 09:29:00 -0000

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.

Re: Some Google Reader Notes Statistics

azeem — Thu, 08 May 2008 09:17:32 -0000

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.