ReadBurner.com - Tracking Google Reader Memes

Keen Google Readers, here’s an app that you’ve been craving for: ReadBurner. ReadBurner has bust into Google’s reader and reads it like an open book, so to speak. It provides stats on the most popular shared items. Much like Digg, items are tabulated into Recent, Popular Today, Popular This Week and Popular All Time. You can see which reader feeds i.e. Linkblogs, are included via the tag cloud and you can even submit your own. This project is extremely fresh out of the box—it’s in Alpha mode, so expect so glitches. But it does work pretty well so far, tracking memes around the Google-sphere. Some high profile tech bloggers are included in amongst the site’s linkblogs: Louis Gray, Robert Scoble and Scott Beale among others. Submit your own feed today.

“Hi folks!
Due to a mistake my hobby project Readburner got leaked today. Louis Gray somehow found my site, which is hosted on an Amazon EC2 server (heck I didn't even had registered a domain name and don't know if I'm happy with my codename). This site is obviously still in very early development. If traffic comes it will clearly go down. Moreover my parsing technolgy is still not tested, so don't wonder if strange things happens.

I'm not gonna close the site anyway. In the Internet you cannot hide anything that's leaked, so be it. Let's see is as an experiment how fast a site can spread through the Google Reader shared items, which is what ReadBurner aims to aggregate.”

FeedBurner is just what consumers have been asking for. Despite its being a one man project, it works and it works pretty well for being just released. It acts as a sort of Digg Techmeme hybrid and eventually could be used to tabulate and organize the day’s popular news.

How will this develop as more feeds are collected? Will it burn out and become another sort of Digg? What about privacy concerns?