Announcing the AideRSS PostRank RSS Extension

4Dec

by admin

So while it might look like all we do is push a MINI out of the ditch and up the hills surrounding the AideRSS HQ, we’ve actually been busy working on the design and development of some exciting new features.

Today we’re announcing the availability of the AideRSS PostRank RSS Extension. “So big deal!” you say. Well actually yeah it is. This means your reader can now expose this element and as a result you can sort your feeds by PostRank similar to how our “MyFeeds” reader works today. Now you can “Read What Matters”, not read what was just published.

Obviously, we’d love to see broad support in RSS Readers, so if you’re interested in adding PostRank to your app, drop us a line or fire away with any questions.

Additionally, because we’ve exposed the PostRank as a data element we’ve unlocked the potential for some interesting mash-ups. Munge your feeds through Yahoo Pipes, Microsoft Popfly or the mash-up platform of your choice. Create a news alert service from your best feeds or with some geo-coding, plot your Top Posts on a map. Ok, the last one was a stretch but it would still be fun. Let us know what you come up with.

Now a brief delve into the technical. First you’ll notice that the AideRSS feeds now include a new namespace:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss xmlns:aiderss="http://aiderss.com/xsd/2007-11-30/aiderss" .... />

Next, within each RSS Item you’ll see the PostRank element.

<item>

      <title>StartupCamp Toronto - More Details</title>
      <link>http://www.startupnorth.ca/2007/...</link>
      <comments>http://www.startupnorth.ca...</comments>
      <wfw:commentRss>http://www.startupnor...</wfw:commentRss>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:42:13 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.startupnorth.ca/2007/11/26/st.../</guid>

      <aiderss:postrank>10.0</aiderss:postrank>

      <description>We are VERY excited to announce the line
      up for StartupCamp Toronto. But first, a big thank you
      to our sponsors. And not just because we couldn't have
      put together this event without them. Sponsors These
      folks are in the business of making startups successful,
      without them a startup' s chances drop significantly and
      then we'd have nothing [...]</description>

</item>

That’s it. I told you it would brief. Please let us know what you think.

From Announcement, Features, RSS

http://opensource-notebook.com/ Daniel Aleksandersen

Drop your brand name in the namespace and it will be all fine. Make it a generic ranking operator and define a way to pitch in data from aideRSS.
http://www.aiderss.com/blog Ilya Grigorik

Daniel, could you expand on the “define a way to pitch in data from AideRSS”? Are you thinking an API to retrieve the story PostRank, or do you have something else in mind?
http://www.shoob.com/index.php/2007/12/17/extension-rss-proposee-par-aiderss/ Extension RSS proposée par AideRSS — SHOOB

[...] Announcing the AideRSS PostRank RSS Extension – AideRSS Blog [...]
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ Scott Hanselman

Plus 1 on the dropping of the brand name. Otherwise, a fine idea.
http://www.aiderss.com/blog Jeff

The motivation behind this extension was to expose PostRank in readers beyond our “My Feeds” reader. Currently we’re the only ones who can calculate PostRank so I’m not sure what dropping the brand name accomplishes.

That said, perhaps what people are suggesting, and I’m reading between the lines of Daniel’s comment, is to use PostRank as a factor in portable data format like APML — see http://www.apml.org
http://www.jay.fm Jay Levitt

Since PostRank isn’t (AFAICT) a trademark, isn’t it actually *better* to namespace it with aiderss? Conceivably, in the future, I might want to see PostRank data from AideRSS, GoogleKnowsEverythingRSS, FacebookWereWatchingYouRSS, etc., all mashed up into one feed.

I mean, er, not that I’d ever need another service besides AideRSS. Of course not. But, still.
http://blog.inturl.com/2008/02/15/using-aiderss-for-feeds-filtering/ Using AideRSS For Feeds Filtering | INTURL™ BLOG

[...] about this feed, its statistics, and people’s reaction to it. Then to the feed, they will assign PostRankTM scores to all articles in the feed and provide you with a variety of tools to sort and parse these [...]
http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/onemanband/?p=299 One-Man Band: Online Research on the Way to Online Business

[...] The number at the far left is AideRSS’s PostRank™, an evaluation of the quality of the post. According to AideRSS’s FAQ: [...]
http://blog.pb30.com/2008/04/06/aiderss-read-just-the-good-stories/ AideRSS: Read Just The Good Stories « Fragmented Tech

[...] getting and compares it to other posts from the same blog. Each post is assigned a number, known as PostRank. The PostRank is calculated by looking at comments on the post, if it was posted to Digg or [...]
http://screencast.fr/comment-gagner-du-temps-dans-sa-veille Screencast.fr » Blog Archive » Comment gagner du temps dans sa veille

[...] intéresser. AideRss propose un plugin firefox (ou greasemonkey) permettant d’intégrer leur PostRank directement dans votre lecteur RSS afin d’en faire sortir le signal du bruit. Terriblement [...]
http://www.theuniuni.com/ cheap bras

Amazing write-up! This could aid plenty of people find out more about this particular issue. Are you keen to integrate video clips coupled with these? It would absolutely help out. Your conclusion was spot on and thanks to you; I probably won’t have to describe everything to my pals. I can simply direct them here!
http://www.theuniuni.com/ cheap bras

Amazing write-up! This could aid plenty of people find out more about this particular issue. Are you keen to integrate video clips coupled with these? It would absolutely help out. Your conclusion was spot on and thanks to you; I probably won’t have to describe everything to my pals. I can simply direct them here!

Announcing the AideRSS PostRank RSS Extension

Come find us at one of these events:

PostRank Logo

PostRank