Google Reader most shared? Jul30 '07

The "Shared Items" feature of Google Reader is incredibly handy. However, Google is not doing enough with this data that they are obtaining from Reader users.

When I "share" an item in Google Reader, is this not my own way of promoting the item to a "Digg worthy" status?

Couldn't Google provide an interface that highlights the "most shared" items? With just that information, already you'd have a quasi-Digg application. This should be a simple algorithm for Google to provide.

From Scoble:

Google could put out a Digg-style killer that'd be a lot harder to game.

And what about other people's shared items? Not only could we see the "most shared," we could see who shared each item, providing us with new blogs and sites that we never knew about.

Notes

I got this idea from Scoble's article.

In that article, he is referring to a Facebook application that aggregates Google Reader Shared data from other Facebook users that are marked as friends. In his case, with over 3,000 friends, he must be getting some interesting results. However, for someone like me with only a handful of friends, the results won't be so hot.

Still, overall it's a great idea that could be implemented into the Google Reader interface itself.

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the google reader facebook app does show most shared overall, the shared by your friends thing is just another future. check it out :) ... Read more.

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