DISQUS

AideRSS Blog: Announcing the AideRSS PostRank RSS Extension

  • Daniel Aleksandersen · 2 years ago
    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.
  • Ilya Grigorik · 2 years ago
    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?
  • Scott Hanselman · 2 years ago
    Plus 1 on the dropping of the brand name. Otherwise, a fine idea.
  • Jeff · 2 years ago
    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
  • Jay Levitt · 2 years ago
    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.