It is known fact that tech savvy/aware users are hooked to RSS readers, be it online or desktop version like Google reader and Feed Demon respectively. With shared items concept on Google Reader, sharing interesting content/links has become easier.
Taking advantage of Shared items on Google Reader is an interesting web service called ‘ReadBurner’. Does this remind you of feedburner? ReadBurner also deal with RSS feeds in a different manner, it aggregates items that are shared on the Google Reader.
This works by constantly updating RSS feeds of currently several hundred linkblogs. In order to filter out the best stuff ReadBurner counts, whenever an item is shared by multiple persons.
You can submit your linkblog RSS feed to have your blog links feature on Readburner. It also shows statistics in terms of top linkblogger, top sources and top authors. Not surprisingly top blogs like Boing Boing, Mashable, Lifehacker feature among top sources.
Interface of website is more like Digg with options like: Popular. Upcoming, Most Recent, Popular this Week, Popular All time. It has language options of: English, Persian, Asian, Spanish, French. Interesting part is preview options of Nothing, Full and text – you need to use them to know why they are interesting?
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Is it worth? Since it is based on share items of Google reader most of the content on the website is from top-notch blogs. One place to check out best of the best, isn’t that worth? Yeah!