If you’re like me constantly tracking the buzz in the blogosphere, and subscribed to more than hundred of RSS feeds, please check out this tool, i.e. AideRSS. It is a free tool for a user to further filter the RSS feeds she subscribed.

AideRSS, with a motto of “read what matters,” you probably well expect its main feature, but some of its functionality offered may well beyond its original design goals. At first, I thought AideRSS will let me analyze some of the blogs I like, and know more about their blogging habits, and ultimately learn about which post is the most talkable in the blogosphere. However, I didn’t know beside the performance tracking feature, AideRSS can provide users the ability to filter or sort out their feeds in a manner that somewhat will fuel the explosive growth of quality blogs out there. If you always feel that your RSS feeds you subscribed are too many, you want to reclaim your time, I think AideRSS is not suitable for you. This is your problem, you’ve subscribed too many feeds that you aren’t manage. But if you’re looking for the convenience of quality time to read quality posts posted by your favorite blogs, AideRSS is for you.

AideRSS is using an algorithm called PostRank, to rank the acceptability of a blog post by measure its comments, or conversation happened in the blogosphere. It processes any feed you entered into their search bar in the categorization of good posts, great posts, best posts, and top 20. Of course, the famous and top blogs will always had the privilege and heritage. In order to filter the great posts of your favorite blogs, you can add all those great posts to your feeds in your AideRSS account, or subscribe it to your own feed reader. Those great posts will be delivered to your feed reader in your computer desktop directly from AideRSS. The smaller number of the feeds appeared from your favorite blogs will make you feel that you’re more in control when notice the volume of the feeds you subscribed have been reduce tremendously.

Currently, AideRSS is well integrated with Twitter and supports OpenID. Besides, they also developing a Firefox extension for Google Reader (in private beta) as well as allowed bloggers to published their AideRSS top stories widgets to their blogs.

If you notice the sidebar, there’s a feed subscriptions box on this blog as TagEdge is using FeedBurner to power the RSS feed. What is RSS? RSS is an XML based format for syndicating Web content and being widely used on the news provider sites and blogging engines. I knew some of the readers that frequently visit this blog have subscribed to TagEdge RSS, and I’m still waiting for FeedBurner to fetch the latest number of my readers. Click on the feed subscriptions will bring you to my TagEdge RSS and you can subscribe to this blog through some RSS newsreader software packages.

From the recent buzz in the blogosphere, it seems Google is buying FeedBurner for $100 miilion. Apparently, Google liked the acquisition of FeedBurner, but the one obvious question was its evaluation. Furthermore, Google own product, i.e. Google Reader had the similar business model as FeedBurner when compare to each other face-to-face. But it’s seems this is not very important when the growth of the blogosphere is fit to Google’s assessment of FeedBurner’s worth.

Read a blog of HitWise gave us the answer of the potential and growth of FeedBurner in recent months. Not only this, this particular post also discussed the increased need of analytics products in the blogosphere. Of course, the size of the market determine the attractiveness of its future growth. It was on the basis that the potential of a market is always far more important than how Google made the $100 million valuation on FeedBurner. But we shall not forget about the Google plans of the AdSense for feeds. Though still in beta testing, with the existence of more than 400,000 publishers FeedBurner had got in hands, any perception of overpaying for this FeedBurner acquisition by Google could prove the industry pundits wrong in the future. I believed it was only a matter of time before Google building another strong feeds provider in order to visualize their AdSense for feeds’ dream, if the above acquisition didn’t happen.

FeedBurner has launched its Chinese language site, this marks their aggressive effort into the China market. It is not considered a FeedBurner’s brand new Chinese site, but a site that have been translate totally through a company that called YeeYan. As you visit this YeeYan page, you’ll notice that a translator named Richard Barton that asked for 3-4 volunteers on 30th April with the aim to help him finish all the necessary FeedBurner translation within the 48 hours timeframe.

Given the saturation in the home market, it is not a surprise move by FeedBurner, if you follow closely their next steps or intentions of FeedBurner on their official blog, they even stated that they have highly interest in Dutch, Chinese, Hindi, and Klingon, according to this post. But whatever market, new entrant would definitely faced their ultimate competitor, but I particularly interested in how FeedSky, the leading feed provider in China further extend their market share despite the struggle for market share has been intensified recently.

FeedSky, a Beijing-based blogs and RSS feeds provider will launch its newest service, i.e. pay per post in the near future, according to this post (in Mandarin), where advertisers are allowed to pay the bloggers in the FeedSky that write about their products. As I read some of the comments made by the Chinese people, their viewpoint on this service is something similarly to the services offered by ReviewMe and SponsoredReviews. FeedSky, launched in July 2005 probably the biggest blog and RSS feeds provider in the world, if not mistaken, would like to take advantages of their big pool of bloggers/readers. They now have more than 2 million registered feeds and successfully built a strategic alliance with Feedster in November last year. The number of feeds is twice more than their closest competitor, i.e. FeedBurner that has the total number of feeds, i.e. 610,862 up to date.

The details of how this service would be rewarded to the bloggers is still unknown today. However, as in the blogging industry, a lot of bloggers have raised questions concerning of appropriate and responsible blogging behaviors. It is important that a firm that operate the plan or scheme of pay per post service will set up some policies to eliminate the advertisers for the requirements of positive reviews. On the other hand, bloggers should be realized that it is part of their responsibilities of always tell the truth to the public.