ReadBurner + Netvibes = More Shared Items Goodness
May 13 2008 
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If you’re tired of being left out of the ReadBurner democracy of having your shared vote counted, Netvibes users needn’t worry any longer. Today, ReadBurner has partnered with Netvibes for something special.
Using the new APIs that Netvibes is soon launching for Ginger activity streams, ReadBurner will now pull in Netvibes shared items alongside Google Reader shared items. No registration will be required for Netvibe users. In fact, Netvibes users can add their shared items by going to http://www.readburner.com/addfeed.php and entering their Netvibes username. It’s that simple.
Parties on both ends seem confident about the new partnership. According to Franck Mahon, VP Product Development of Netvibes. :
We are very focused on making it easy for our users to share their favorite content with their friends or the public, [...] It has really been a pleasure to partner with ReadBurner in testing our APIs and we’re really excited about opening Netvibes Ginger activities streams to external applications.
CEO of ReadBurner, Adam Ostrow, notes:
"Netvibes Ginger is a revolutionary product that truly makes the start page a social experience,[...] We are thrilled to be working with Netvibes to allow their millions of users to help us determine the most important content on the Web in a completely transparent and opt-in way."
I’m sure bloggers and users who are fans of ReadBurner will be more than happy for more accurate statistics to how popular stories really are. Will there be many more partnerships like this? Only team will tell. Regardless,this is a positive move for both ReadBurner and Netvibes that users of both services can appreciate.
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Check the public FriendFeed timeline for how often people share on NetVibes: http://friendfeed.com/public?service=netvibes. Doesn't seem to be very frequently.
But still a great move from ReadBurner. Now if only they'd start putting back the Author / Tag information that was in the feeds they crawled into the feeds they published.
will be interesting to see how many shares come from the netvibes side for sure. but I say anyway you make it easier for people to share their ideas, thoughts, and even stories they like the better. we all are winners :)
thanks for installing Seesmic video comments!
Sharing is also pretty new on Netvibes, relative to Google Reader. That said, the opportunity is a lot bigger – Netvibes has millions of users, GReader has … (not sure, a few hundred thousand maybe?)
Sharing is also pretty new on Netvibes, relative to Google Reader. That said, the opportunity is a lot bigger – Netvibes has millions of users, GReader has … (not sure, a few hundred thousand maybe?)
thanks for installing Seesmic video comments!
Sharing is also pretty new on Netvibes, relative to Google Reader. That said, the opportunity is a lot bigger – Netvibes has millions of users, GReader has … (not sure, a few hundred thousand maybe?)