Posts Tagged google-reader
Google Reader Gets a Social Makeover, Adds Likes and Followers
Posted by Hassan Alsheikh in Articles on July 16th, 2009
Social media’s changed how users consume content. In the past, we’d read a few news websites or top blogs, and our trust came from those brands. However, with the rise of social filtering and tools like Facebook and Twitter, more and more of our news comes from our friends, who share what they find interesting. This is part of why retweeting and link sharing has become such a hot trend.
Google Reader, the most popular tool for reading RSS feeds, recognizes this phenomenon. In May, they launched a friends trends tool to help you determine who was worth following, but that’s nothing compared to the changes that Google’s making today: it has added the ability to follow specific users and to “like” articles.
In other words, Google Reader has emulated FriendFeed, Facebook, and Twitter.
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New Blog Search tools: Feeds, Hot Queries and Latest Posts
Posted by Hassan Alsheikh in Articles on July 2nd, 2009
Ever since the new Google Blog Search homepage launched , we’ve been fielding requests for a myriad of different features. Today we’re happy to announce the launch of our most requested feature: RSS and Atom feeds. Simply click on the links under “Subscribe” in the left-hand column of the Blog Search front page to subscribe to any topic or story in any feed reader, like Google Reader .
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New Blog Search tools: Feeds, Hot Queries and Latest Posts
The evolution of Gmail labels
Posted by Hassan Alsheikh in Articles on July 1st, 2009
I love labels in Gmail. Most email programs use folders, which only let me put mail in one place at a time
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The evolution of Gmail labels