短命に終わったreadburner
google readerにおける各個人の共有フィード・アイテムに基づいて人気度を割り出す方法で期待を集めていたreadburnerが、今年の1月スタートから2ヵ月ほどでサービス中止となった。今となってはBenjamin GolubによるクローンであるRSSMemeがユーザーに残された同様のサービスとなってしまった。readburnerのサービス中止メッセージでも開発者Alexander MarktlはRSSMemeを良くできたクローンと褒めユーザーに薦めている。
ReadBurner burst onto the scene in January, offering the first serious attempt to harness the power of shared link blogs from Google Reader, and determine what RSS feed items were the most popular, democratically assigning equal weight to each person's share, instead of relying on proprietary algorithms, like TechMeme, Megite, BlogRunner and others do. But only two months after seeing the site jump into the public conscious, written up by major blogs, from Mashable, TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb and Lifehacker, developer Alexander Marktl has decided to shutter the site, saying he just doesn't have the time to keep the site up and running, with real life getting in the way.
http://www.louisgray.com/live/2008/03/readburner-shuts-site-down-for-good.html
I really want to thank all of you guys for supporting me, giving me feedback and visiting ReadBurner. It's been very exiting to run a website that got so much Buzz from the blogosphere in such a short period of time. If you are still interested in the idea of ReadBurner I suggest you to try out RSSmeme which is a very well done clone of ReadBurner developed by Benjamin Golub.
