Ask HN: Review my site -- socialreader.net

[rama_vadakattu]

I thought a lot on this application.

Can you please guide me on

1)Is this idea worth trying and to focus on? Iam relying on

    a) friendfeed API to fetch diverse content like delicious, facebook,Google Reader 
    b) twitter API for twitter

2) Its sole aim is to provide interesting content for a topic (users can rely on this if he needs to keep track on a topic ),

3)What parts of the application requires an improvement?

Thanks

[messel]

The only danger in relying on friendfeed is that it was bought.

Otherwise I'm curious of what algorithms or measures you used to score shares?

I am working with another developer on a semantic/social processin application. We use external trending sites for search a well as Twitter search API with JavaScript. I think value comes from helping to make new connections, or raising interesting content from friends that may have been missed.

Check VictusMedia.com if you're curious (next patch is adding some groovy features once bug smashing phase is cleared).

[voidfiles]

I like the idea of having some transparency into google reader, its like the last place where good stats aren't readily available, but I am having a hard time understand what I can you use your site for other then, top 10 lists. Is that all its going to be? I signed up created a topic and then didn't get any content on that topic.

I use google reader all the time, its my main source of reading news. I have two years worth of shared, and stared, and noted data. Is there anyway for you to look at that and figure out what I am already reading?

Does friendfeed aggregate all of google reader, or only the google reader accounts that have been linked to friend feed accounts?

[keefe]

From a design point of view, I would put your two columns inside a fixed with div centered in the page. On my 1920x1080 monitor, there's a huge pile of whitespace between the two. I would replace all the detail with how it works with some actual content. Nobody cares how it works. I look at it for a second and go OK, why wouldn't I just go to alltop? not trying to be critical just my first impression and why I'm not looking at it further.

[UpFromTheGut]

Is this meant to be used in lieu of a feed reader, or in complement? At some point you should work on nice error pages, by the way: http://www.socialreader.net/blah/