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No Change in GReader after extension install in FF3
i installed the googlereader firefox extension and all i see is a drop down menu for all/good/great/best and nothing else new in google reader. Am I missing something? I am using Firefox 3. I don't remember explicitly installing Greasemonkey but I don't know how to tell if it is installed or not. I am very frustrated as this extension looks like the kind that I would love and want to share with many people, but I am close to giving up on it. Help?
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Pretty much, though number of links is just one of the things we measure, and we're adding more analysis sources all the time. We think there's lots of potential, too, and there are some very cool things coming up. :)
To change the filtering levels in Google Reader, click on a feed, and at the top of the right pane where stories are displayed, you'll see an orange drop-down box to the left of the Feed Settings drop-down box. It will be set to "All" by default. Click that and you can change the filtering level for the feed -- All, Good, Great, or Best.
Each time you change the filtering level, the number of items that are displayed for that feed will change, depending on how many items that feed has that meet the filtering threshold (i.e. have a high enough PostRank score). You can set a different filtering level for each feed if you like.
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Hi Dave, I had to ask that the first time, too. To check if you have Greasemonkey installed, in the top Firefox menu, click Tools, then Add-ons. If you have Greasemonkey it'll appear in that list. If you don't have it, you don't need to get it.
Then after you've extracted the files in the zip, click on the one you need (aiderssgr.user.js if you have Greasemonkey, or aiderss-gr.xpi if you don't) and just drag and drop it onto the FF browser or into the Add-ons window. That will launch the install process. Just click install, restart the browser, and you should be good to go.
You don't need to re-install the old version before you install the new one.
If you have any problems, let me know and we'll get it sorted out. Hope that helps!
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Inappropriate?Did you install this extension? http://gr.aiderss.com/ - That one is fine with FF2, but for FF3 you'll need this one: http://blog.aiderss.com/firefox-3-ext... (It's beta, but plays nice with FF3 and Greasemonkey.)
If you have the beta extension and are still having problems, please let me know and we'll do some more troubleshooting.
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Inappropriate?Thanks for the quick response, Melanie.
I just downloaded the zip and unzipped, but how do I actually install/run the .xpi file? Also, I uninstalled the original FF add-on. Was that a mistake? Should I reinstall it before adding in this .xpi file? -
Inappropriate?Hi Dave, I had to ask that the first time, too. To check if you have Greasemonkey installed, in the top Firefox menu, click Tools, then Add-ons. If you have Greasemonkey it'll appear in that list. If you don't have it, you don't need to get it.
Then after you've extracted the files in the zip, click on the one you need (aiderssgr.user.js if you have Greasemonkey, or aiderss-gr.xpi if you don't) and just drag and drop it onto the FF browser or into the Add-ons window. That will launch the install process. Just click install, restart the browser, and you should be good to go.
You don't need to re-install the old version before you install the new one.
If you have any problems, let me know and we'll get it sorted out. Hope that helps!
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Inappropriate?looks to be working just fine! Product looks stellar. Thank you for the help, and kudos for being on getstatisfaction.com and being so responsive.
One thing that I have wondered about is how will I know whether articles that are more commented on will be more interesting to me? Do you notice any other users ask that question or is it just assumed that if many people comment/Digg an article that I will like it? Btw, this is a fair assumption to make, I was just seeing if you guys have any info beyond that, maybe some stats? Just curious.
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Inappropriate?My pleasure. Give me a holler if you have further questions.
Re. the question of "interestingness", we've talked a lot about that, too. Basically, while we certainly do measure quantity of feedback - comments, diggs, etc., more importantly we measure "engagement".
So basically, not all types of feedback are given the same "weight", and we account for that when doing our analysis. For example, clicking a link to read a blog post doesn't take very much work. However, writing my own blog post responding to someone else's blog post IS a fair bit of work. So the second option would indicate much greater interest on my part (in the original blog post) than the first option.
We can't absolutely guarantee for personalized interest -- not even Google can do that -- but what our analysis and rankings show is how interesting everyone else on the internet who viewed, commented on, dugg, etc. that post found it, which we think works pretty well.
Generally, we find people do a bit of playing around with filtering levels when they first start using PostRank, and tend to find their "comfort level" pretty quickly, where they feel they're getting enough total stories, and enough stories that they find interesting.
Does that answer your question? If not, let me know and I can take another crack at it. :)
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Inappropriate?Yes, that answers my question. You guys are actually doing with news articles what Google has done with websites - rank by number of links. I think you have huge potential.
How does one play with filtering levels?
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Inappropriate?Pretty much, though number of links is just one of the things we measure, and we're adding more analysis sources all the time. We think there's lots of potential, too, and there are some very cool things coming up. :)
To change the filtering levels in Google Reader, click on a feed, and at the top of the right pane where stories are displayed, you'll see an orange drop-down box to the left of the Feed Settings drop-down box. It will be set to "All" by default. Click that and you can change the filtering level for the feed -- All, Good, Great, or Best.
Each time you change the filtering level, the number of items that are displayed for that feed will change, depending on how many items that feed has that meet the filtering threshold (i.e. have a high enough PostRank score). You can set a different filtering level for each feed if you like.
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