Are you an infovore? Do you keep up with hundreds of RSS feeds, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and maybe a few other sources on a daily basis? If so, then an inbox with an unread count in the hundreds, or even a thousand plus stories, should not be an unusual experience. Many of us at PostRank fall into this category, which is why our original product (AideRSS at the time), was all about enabling you to filter and customize your RSS feeds.
PostRank + Google Reader
Our Firefox extension has become an indispensable tool for many daily Google Reader users, and today we’re happy to announce the official PostRank extension for Google Chrome! Install it, load up Google Reader, and enjoy all of the benefits of filtering by PostRank engagement.
Because the Chrome extension is using native APIs (Firefox requires Greasemonkey support), we’ve been able to significantly improve the user experience as well — all of the ranking is done in real-time and all the ranks are completely contextual. So if you are reading a specific feed, the PostRank scores are all relative to that feed. But if you are navigating through a folder (e.g. Business), or even the “All Items” tab, then all the stories are ranked with respect to the stories in that view.
Additionally, you will notice a PostRank drop-down in the top navigation menu, which enables you to set and modify your filter criteria for each feed, or folder. Only have 5 minutes to spare? Switch the filter to “Best stories” only and the extension will do the rest.
For more details, check out our PostRank Labs site, or head directly to the Chrome Gallery to install the extension!
Oh, and one more thing…
If you go to the extension options page, you can enable the PostRank extension on a selection of other popular sites as well: Digg, Reddit, Google News, and even Google search results! For each story or search result, the extension will pull in the PostRank metadata for the site, and if you hover over the link, you can preview all of the metrics we have aggregated for that site.
Update: We pushed out an update for the extension that improves the UI and rankings in expanded view considerable. Check it out!