We all make choices in life, and like the rest of the world I too make them everyday. I’ve chosen ReadBurner to browse shared news and the hottest buzz around the Internet.

ReadBurner was a simple aggregator service that gauged the popularity of shared items at Google Reader and displayed the top items in a simple and easy to use interface.

It was so good that soon after it’s launch several competitors appeared with the same model. ReadBurner was created and operated by Alexander Marktl who was trying to cope alone with the pressure of being the hottest thing around the net.

But sadly the pressure was too intense and the competition was gaining strength specially RSSMeme, which is also a one man show developed by Benjamin Golub.

This one on one battle for the top shared news aggregator reached it’s end today, when Marktl wrote the following announcement on ReadBurner home page:

I’m sorry to announce that ReadBurner is no longer available.
The reason is that I just don’t have time to keep the site up and running, because of some freelance projects that I cannot drop out.

I really want to thank all of you guys for supporting me, giving me feedback and visiting ReadBurner. It’s been very exiting to run a website that got so much Buzz from the blogosphere in such a short period of time.

If you are still interested in the idea of ReadBurner I suggest you to try out RSSmeme which is a very well done clone of ReadBurner developed by Benjamin Golub.

This annoys me, not only because i liked ReadBurner, but because i now have to change my bookmarks. What I’d like to know is when will Google itself release some kind of aggregator like these services?