[messel]

The only danger in relying on friendfeed is that it was bought.

Otherwise I'm curious of what algorithms or measures you used to score shares?

I am working with another developer on a semantic/social processin application. We use external trending sites for search a well as Twitter search API with JavaScript. I think value comes from helping to make new connections, or raising interesting content from friends that may have been missed.

Check VictusMedia.com if you're curious (next patch is adding some groovy features once bug smashing phase is cleared).

[rama_vadakattu]

yeah exactly iam bit worried as i am relying on friendfeed platform .As they are acquired by Facebook i donot for how much time will they support their API.

For scoring/shares i used the following simple algorithm like

1)Number of people shared this link

2)Blog popularity (i.e) If the blog is popular more shares has to happen for it to appear on appropriate topic popular page.

Any other ideas on improving the algorithm?

[messel]

That sounds great as a first cut.

At VictusMedia we used Topsy as a measure of recent trending links related to categories.