Google Reader now talks back :: nonsmokingarea.com

subnet: <a href="http://nonsmokingarea.com/blog/2007/03/01/joost-beta-invitations-available/#comment-88156" title="View the entire comment by subnet">@jack signup for joost is public now for everyone!
Jack: <a href="http://nonsmokingarea.com/blog/2007/03/01/joost-beta-invitations-available/#comment-88155" title="View the entire comment by Jack">Could you please send me a Joost Invite? We would
Gracie: <a href="http://nonsmokingarea.com/blog/2007/04/14/using-twitter-for-server-monitoring/#comment-88152" title="View the entire comment by Gracie">Right on track about thinking outside the box, I agree.
subnet: <a href="http://nonsmokingarea.com/blog/2007/06/16/phptube-youtube-api-for-video-upload-download/#comment-88151" title="View the entire comment by subnet">hi again, just wanted to let you know that 0.1.7 seems
subnet: <a href="http://nonsmokingarea.com/blog/2008/04/28/microsoft-live-mesh-impressions-invitations/#comment-88149" title="View the entire comment by subnet">Hi Mark - meanwhile Mesh is public, you won't need

Google Reader now talks back

Tags: FeedBurner, google, Google-Reader, rss, traffic

as of yesterday, Google finally reports back RSS subscription-numbers to content-publishers, which basically means that feed-statistics like FeedBurner can now include the number of readers subscribed to a feed through Google Reader or the personalized Google homepage (this wasn’t possible before, meaning that probably thousands of readers wouldn’t show up in your feed-stats). in case you - like me - wonder how this works, Google simply embeds the number of current subscribers into the http-request fetching the feed:

User-Agent: Feedfetcher-Google;
(+http://www.google.com/feedfetcher.html; 3980 subscribers;
feed-id=1794595805790851116)

as a bonus they’ve also added an FAQ aimed at publishers.

btw, according to my own FeedBurner-stats, Google Reader’s marketshare among RSS-readers seems to rise:

FeedBurner Stats

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