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This is pretty exciting, ShareThis turns any website into a social reader! (via ShareThis brings social reader functionality to new sharing widget for publishers)

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[analyst]

  Hmm. Flud is pretty impressive, so far. Lookout Flipboard.

Solves a lot of issues with property-specific "social readers" and adds followers/following to the Flipboard model. Nice magazine style layouts and UEX, like Flipboard, but you can favorite what you like and then choose, article by article, to share with followers on Flud and/or other social networks like Facebook or Twitter. The property-specific social readers, like Yahoo's or Washington Post's, just spam your FB timeline with anything you read.  This is really what Digg should have become too.

UPDATE: Flud go flop and is no more, summer 2013.

[finibits]

Facebook y la caída de las Social Reader Apps

Las Social Reader Apps parecen perder el poder de llegar al usuario de Facebook. Después de que Jeff Bercovici, de Forbes, reportó que en el último mes the Post App perdió alrededor de 8 millones de visitantes, entre abril y mayo, los temores y la preguntas comenzaron a florecer.

La Post App es (o era) uno los productos más valiosos para el lector digital de ese diario. Sin embargo, la repentina disminución de visitas arrastra los números poco a poco. ¿Es el Washington Post Social Reader la única App que está en picada?

John Herrman, de BuzzFeed, confirmó que una caída masiva se está dando entre diferentes aplicaciones sociales en Facebook, entre ellas la de The Guardian con una caída realmente severa. A la lista se suman las aplicaciones de Scribd, Daily Motion, Microsoft Live, entre otras.

La primer respuesta de porque los usuarios están abandonando el uso de las Social Reader Apps es que nada tiene que ver los usuarios. John Constine, de TechCrunch, publicó un artículo donde asegura que la causa es Facebook con sus nuevos trending articles que agregó al NewsFeed.

El colapso que disminuyó las visitas me hace concluir que todo depende de la red creada por Zuckerberg. Facebook, hoy, decide que sitios visita el lector, la frecuencia, el tiempo, y puede fácilmente cambiar la experiencia del usuario afectando cualquier aplicación de terceros. El control de las Apps estará en la manos de Facebook durante mucho tiempo.

[suryaray-blog]

Facebook: Social Reader Usage May Be Down, But Engagement Is Up

The media, forever a navel-gazing industry, worked itself into a fever earlier this week after evidence emerged that usage of Facebook’s s… http://dlvr.it/1XdXn3

[benjaminpaton]

7 Reasons a Social Reader is the Last Thing You Need

If you have tried to read a shared article on Facebook or any other social network lately it is like you have encountered a Social Reader.

You have definitely experienced a Social Reader if that article asked you to install an application before you were able to read it.

Social Reading is a current trend in Social Media that sees content creators distributing there content via an application as opposed to directly via the web.

The fact is that if you are installing something you don't need (or think you don't need), then there is likely nothing for you to gain, and likely an underhanded motive for the person asking you to install it.

In the case of Social Readers the content creator distributing this way is using the application to harvest additional information about you, what you read, when you read, who reads what you share.

Lets be honest, this type of data mining is happening everywhere already. Just think about the information Facebook or Google know about you. But does this need to be prerequisite for reading news?

Imagine if you had to fill out a 10 page personality questionnaire before you could buy a newspaper, would you buy that paper, or would you just buy a different one? There is no shortage of content online, so why should it be any different. If a content provider requires you to install a superfluous application to view their content, just go somewhere else.

Here are 7 reason why a Social Reader is the last thing you need.

Creates Social Network clutter There are already so many things integrated into account like Facebook. A Social Reader represents another unnecessary item preventing you from seeing what is important to you.

Spam!

After letting a Social Reader in the door, it will do its best to command your attention. Just because you read a tabloid article one day, doesn't mean you want to see every tabloid article everyday.

No direct benefit to you Beyond getting access to the article you want to read, you get no benefit from installing a Social Reader. The only arguable benefit is that you will be able to easily read other peoples Social Reader shared content, but what is to say they are using the same Social Reader as you.

It alienates your friends A Social Reader represents a prerequisites for viewing your content. You cannot assume that your friends want to install a Social Reader to view the content you share. If people don't read the content you share, it is unlikely they will interact with you.

Ignored Content Your audience will quickly associate the content you share with Social Reading, and save themselves the trouble of clicking through. Once bitten twice shy.

You don't always want everyone to know everything you read By default most Social Readers are configured to share everything you read. This means that all your friends will see everything you read. 

Compromised Privacy Social Readers are third-party software. This means you are approving access to your private information for a third-party. Have you read their terms & conditions?

Hopefully Social Reading is a passing fad. I will be boycotting the whole concept, and I would recommend you do the same. If publishers want me to perpetuate their marketing, then I really need to be getting more out of the deal.

What is your experience with Social Readers? Love them, or hate them, let me know your thoughts.

@benjaminpaton

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