AideRSS Blog - Latest Comments in Announcing the AideRSS PostRank RSS Extension

Re: Announcing the AideRSS PostRank RSS Extension

Jay Levitt — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 21:48:43 -0000

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.

Re: Announcing the AideRSS PostRank RSS Extension

Jeff — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:16:05 -0000

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

Re: Announcing the AideRSS PostRank RSS Extension

Scott Hanselman — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 04:25:40 -0000

Plus 1 on the dropping of the brand name. Otherwise, a fine idea.

Re: Announcing the AideRSS PostRank RSS Extension

igrigorik — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 16:03:43 -0000

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?

Re: Announcing the AideRSS PostRank RSS Extension

Daniel Aleksandersen — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:26:23 -0000

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.