It’s getting harder and harder lately to keep up with all the wild and wonderful apps that help you keep up with things. Every day I wrestle a little with varying degrees of distraction from email, IM, Twitter, FriendFeed, and others – luckily I find myself hating Facebook more and more of late, so that has become a very minimal distratcion 🙂 My most-used (by far) method of keeping up with the news each day is RSS readers – and I currently use too many of those as well, since Dan got me looking at NetNewsWire as well as Google Reader.
ReadBurner is another interesting entry in the RSS / news field. It’s a ‘mashup’ type app built on and reliant upon Google Reader. It’s a very simple but quite useful app that lets you keep track of ‘hot’ topics by seeing what is getting shared by Google Reader users the most. As you can see in the screencap at top left, ReadBurner presents a very basic layout of the most popular stories, up and coming ones, most recent, and so on. Each of the main sections gives you a short listing of articles per the section title, and you can tap once to view an individual article. They’re formatted perfectly for iPhone reading, but you can also hit the ‘Full HTML’ button to open a new page to the full article at its original source.
I like ReadBurner a lot so far, partly because it gives a quick feel for what stories are hot (although not sure this is the best measure of that of course) and also because it’s an easy way to get myself reading some things that cover much broader subjects than my regular RSS feeds do – since my regular feeds tend to focus in quite a bit on iPhone, mobile tech, and general tech news.
You can give ReadBurner Mobile a look at http://m.readburner.com – and let us know what you reckon …
Tags: ReadBurner, Mobile, ReadBurner Mobile, Google Reader, most popular shared items
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