11 november 2008
Ook Google reader vertaalt je feeds
Ik had het nog niet eerder ontdekt, maar Google Reader vertaalt ook feeds naar je standaard taal. Dat blijkt bij mij Engels te zijn. Maar deze Poolse Google nieuwsberichten zo in de reader vertaald te krijgen vind ik wel een mooie dienst. Chique!
Hiervoor gooide ik dit soort feeds door Yahoo! Pipes, maar die heeft wat minder taal opties dan Google Reader. Zo kan je toch mooi de internationale impact in de populaire press van Wageningen UR in de gaten houden.
Labels: Google reader
30 mei 2007
Google Reader en de Feedburner performance problemen
Het nieuws dat dat Feedburner overgenomen wordt door Google was overal te lezen. De feed van mijn blog wordt ook door Feedburner verspreid. Er zijn ruim 700 lezers die gebruik maken van deze specifieke dienst. Dus enige intresse in de ontwikkelingen rond Feedburner heb ik wel.
Wat mij het meest opviel was de negatieve toon van veel berichten over deze overname. Big bad Google werd op vele plaatsen ten tonele gevoerd.
Toch wil ik wel even aangeven wat ik hoop dat er verbeterd met deze overname. Dat is de snelheid waarmee Google Reader de Feedburner feeds verspreid. Op dit moment is dat soms hemelschreiend, tergend, puur slecht. In het bijgaande plaatje zie je tijdsverschil dat mijn post van gisterenavond-of vanochtend zo je wilt- door Google Reader werd doorgegeven. De originele Blogger feed stond er na een uurtje op. De tijd op de blog is niet helemaal de juiste indicatie voor het moment dat er werkelijk gepost werd, maar geeft het tijdstip weer dat er begonnen werd met schrijven. Maar de tweede (bovenste) regel geeft weer wanneer de Feedburner feed door Google Reader verspreid werd. Ruim 4,5 uur na de Blogger feed. Dat is een onverteerbaar groot tijdsverschil. Soms is het wat minder, maar het valt mij op dat dit veel vaker gebeurt met zo'n ontzettend groot tijdsverschil.
Teruggaan naar Bloglines is eigenlijk geen optie. De redenen om daar weg te gaan waren ondermeer onverklaarbare lange update intervallen (soms wel dagen), het steeds vaker verschijnen van de plumber, maar bovenal Google Reader werkt efficienter. Ik kan in kortere tijd meer feeds slechten. Ze moeten dan wel op tijd binnenkomen. Nu Feedburner in Google handen komt, maken we goede kans.
Parallel hieraan, het heeft tijden geduurd voordat Feeburner het aantal Google Reader en IGoogle lezers goed kon weergeven. Maar dat is toen ook goed gekomen.
Google maak er werk van en verbeter dit performance probleem als de bliksem.
PS. Edwin, natuurlijk ken ik de zaligheden van Netvibes..... Maar daar gaat deze post niet over.
Labels: Feedburner, Google reader
23 februari 2007
The real top 5 RSS readers at this moment
Since Feedburner started to report the Google reader and Personal Google feed subscribers on Feedburder syndicated feeds, there have been many posts on feed statistics. Of course on this blog but also here, here or here.
The most interesting post related to this subject appeared today on the Feedburner blog "Burning Questions" itself. They give a fairly comprehensive overview of the most popular webbased feedreaders. myYahoo as measured by clickthroughs seems to be the most popular (but they only syndicate headlines). This is followed by Google, Bloglines and Netvibes. When measured by views Google Reader, Bloglines, NewsGator and Netvibes, in taht order, account for 98% of all views. Google by far and large the most popular.
The numbers reported here are a bit in contrast with a fairly recent post by Hitwise. Hitwise measure something altogether different, they measure web traffic. For webbased readers however, you'd expect some correlation. But on january 18th Bloglines was by and far the most popular webbased reader in the USA, according to Hitwise. LeeAnn Prescott writes "Google Reader has grown lately, but as of the week ending 1/13/07, it had only 1/13 of the market share of visits of Bloglines."
I can't believe Google Reader makes up this much in such a short time period. I myself was wondering about geographical influences. I notice on my feed that Netvibes has become the most popular reader. On some other Dutch blogs Netvibes is quite popular too, but not as popular as on mine. Still all substantially higher than in the USA. Might this be caused by the fact that it is a French company?
Just a question.
I have tried Netvibes for some time as well, but I think PageFlakes is actually more impressive since it allows you to share your resources more easily.
Interesting to note that Pandia just did a qualitative review of RSS readers. The sentence I liked most was their criticism on Google Reader: "I also often see the Google Labs test tube logo, which is displayed when Google Reader needs some seconds to work on a request." It really drives me mad so now and then. Where they can search billions of webpages in a fraction of seconds, and indicated my personalized results. The same Google can't resolve a few feeds (some 300) in less than seconds..... Otherwise the choice of Rojo and FeedShow seem a bit far off.
CleverClogs has also an interesting post on this subject.
Update: The RRW write-up includes Pheedo stats for comaprison
The most interesting post related to this subject appeared today on the Feedburner blog "Burning Questions" itself. They give a fairly comprehensive overview of the most popular webbased feedreaders. myYahoo as measured by clickthroughs seems to be the most popular (but they only syndicate headlines). This is followed by Google, Bloglines and Netvibes. When measured by views Google Reader, Bloglines, NewsGator and Netvibes, in taht order, account for 98% of all views. Google by far and large the most popular.
The numbers reported here are a bit in contrast with a fairly recent post by Hitwise. Hitwise measure something altogether different, they measure web traffic. For webbased readers however, you'd expect some correlation. But on january 18th Bloglines was by and far the most popular webbased reader in the USA, according to Hitwise. LeeAnn Prescott writes "Google Reader has grown lately, but as of the week ending 1/13/07, it had only 1/13 of the market share of visits of Bloglines."
I can't believe Google Reader makes up this much in such a short time period. I myself was wondering about geographical influences. I notice on my feed that Netvibes has become the most popular reader. On some other Dutch blogs Netvibes is quite popular too, but not as popular as on mine. Still all substantially higher than in the USA. Might this be caused by the fact that it is a French company?
Just a question.
I have tried Netvibes for some time as well, but I think PageFlakes is actually more impressive since it allows you to share your resources more easily.
Interesting to note that Pandia just did a qualitative review of RSS readers. The sentence I liked most was their criticism on Google Reader: "I also often see the Google Labs test tube logo, which is displayed when Google Reader needs some seconds to work on a request." It really drives me mad so now and then. Where they can search billions of webpages in a fraction of seconds, and indicated my personalized results. The same Google can't resolve a few feeds (some 300) in less than seconds..... Otherwise the choice of Rojo and FeedShow seem a bit far off.
CleverClogs has also an interesting post on this subject.
Update: The RRW write-up includes Pheedo stats for comaprison
Labels: Bloglines, English, Feedreaders, Google reader, myYahoo, Netvibes, RSS
