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Aug. 14, 2008 at 9:35am by Barry Schwartz
Google Reader Improves Friends Sharing Feature
The Google Reader Blog announced they have added a few features to improve the flexibility of sharing your feeds with your friends. With the new feature, you can now manage your "Friends list" in Google Reader, separate from your Gmail chat contacts. Why is that important? Well, when Google Reader...
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Dec. 27, 2007 at 8:54am by Danny Sullivan
Keeping It Private On Google Reader
Almost two weeks ago, I wrote my Google Reader Gets Social With Friends Shared Items post detailing how disturbing it was that Google Reader was now sharing items with people it considered my friends, on an opt-out basis. Privacy concerns over this finally exploded this week, with Google Reader...
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Dec. 26, 2007 at 8:31am by Barry Schwartz
Google Reader Share With Friends Feature Causes Privacy Concerns
Google Reader shares private data, ruins Christmas from Felipe Hoffa has a detailed rundown of the user complaints with Google Reader's new share with friends feature. Felipe writes, "One week ago Google Reader's team decided to begin showing your private data to all your GMail contacts. No need to opt-in,...
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Dec. 20, 2007 at 8:48am by Barry Schwartz
Jason Shellen, Former Google Reader Product Manager, Joins LiveJournal
Former Blogger Googler Shellen joins LiveJournal from News.com reports Jason Shellen, the former Google Reader product manager, is joining LiveJournal as the vice president of product development. Shellen announced his departure from Google in July of this year. He said he left because he has the "entrepreneurial/start-up bug," where he...
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Dec. 17, 2007 at 1:02pm by Danny Sullivan
Google Reader Gets Social With Friends Shared Items
Google's made a significant move toward trying to have a Facebook-like news feed and beef up its social networking aspirations by integrating Google Talk / Gmail contacts with Google Reader. I'd seen the discussion earlier, but after now experiencing it first-hand, it's kind of scary that it isn't more opt-in...
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Nov. 30, 2007 at 9:40am by Barry Schwartz
Google Reader Adds Recommendations And Drag & Drop
The Google Reader Blog announced that they have added two new features unique to Google Reader but not unique to many other RSS readers. The new features are "recommendations" and drag and drop capabilities....
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Nov. 9, 2007 at 9:02am by Vanessa Fox
How Feedburner Adds Up Subscriber Numbers
Last Saturday, there was a gasp of collective horror in the blogosphere as FeedBurner subscriber stats plunged for many sites. Today, it's happened again. Don't panic! Your subscribers are probably all still there, with Google Reader to blame for the missing numbers. Below, our comprehensive guide to how FeedBurner compiles...
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Nov. 7, 2007 at 8:43am by Barry Schwartz
Google Reader Improves iPhone Interface & Adds Blogroll Feature
The Google Reader Blog announced they have added the ability to dynamically include a blogroll of your feeds on your site and that they have improved the Google Reader Mobile interface for iPhone users....
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Oct. 19, 2007 at 12:29pm by Danny Sullivan
Google Reader Says It Does "Dailyish" Update Of Subscriber Counts
When Google Reader launched new subscriber figures earlier this week, I touched base with Google to find out if they'd be doing a real top blogs list rather than the ad-hoc ones now out there, plus how often the stats were updated and a few more things. Answers have come...
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Oct. 15, 2007 at 3:36am by Danny Sullivan
Google Reader Now Reporting Subscriber Figures
Earlier this year, iGoogle started reporting the number of readers putting a blog on their personalized home pages at Google. Now Google Reader is doing the same, showing how many readers a blog has within Google's dedicated feed reading service. More on this below, especially how in contrast, FeedBurner/Google Feedfetcher...
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Sep. 13, 2007 at 9:55pm by Danny Sullivan
New Feed Subscriber Stats & User Interface For Google Webmaster Central
Google Webmaster Central has gone live with a new "subscriber stats" area showing statistics of how many people read your feeds through the iGoogle personalized home page and Google Reader, as well as a new look and user interface for GWC. Below, more about both, as well as issues for...
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Sep. 12, 2007 at 8:00am by Danny Sullivan
Activity Streams & Other Social Nuggets From Leaked Google Video
A new video, apparently leaked and intended to orient new Googlers about the Google Reader application, has shed some new light on Google's plans in the feed and social space, as well as providing some stats on Google Reader itself. Leaked Google Video Discusses Google Reader, Social Efforts from Google...
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Sep. 6, 2007 at 8:19am by Barry Schwartz
Google Reader Adds Search & Other Features
The Google Reader Blog announced several new features for Google Reader. The big feature is search. You can now search your subscriptions, including subscriptions to shared items. Google Reader also enhanced the unread count numbers to show up to 1,000, as opposed to up to 100 unread subscriptions. Plus, you...
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Jun. 27, 2007 at 7:16pm by Danny Sullivan
Google Now Reporting Number Of Users Per Gadget
Got a Google Gadget? Google's now reporting how many users make use of it, in addition to the pageviews figures it started posting earlier this year. The new user stats can be found via Google's Homepage Content Directory. There you'll see gadgets that can be added to your iGoogle...
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May. 8, 2007 at 8:49am by Barry Schwartz
Google Finance Integrates Google Calendar, News & Reader While Adding New Features
The Google Blog announced new features for Google Finance. The features include: Events section now lists earnings calls, analyst meetings and other scheduled events relating to a company Add those events to your Google Calendar right from that page View and download historical prices (example for AAPL) You can download...
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Apr. 18, 2007 at 10:16am by Barry Schwartz
Google News Gains Subscribe To Google Reader Link
A reader sent us a screen capture of Google News now showing a link to add news searches to Google Reader....
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Feb. 22, 2007 at 4:50pm by Barry Schwartz
The Numbers Behind Your Feeds
FeedBurner's View of the Feed Market at FeedBurner's blog gives us a detailed look at the numbers and statistics behind your feeds. With the recent adoption of Google Reader subscriber numbers, many bloggers have seen their "subscribers" and other feed stats spike up. In fact, we learn from FeedBurner's post...
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Feb. 16, 2007 at 10:46am by Danny Sullivan
Google Reader Reporting Subscriber Numbers, Offers New Publishers Guide
Google Reader has now announced that it is now providing subscriber counts, the number of people who read your blog through feeds at Google Reader or the Google Personalized Homepage. In addition a new Google Reader Publishers Guide has been posted with tips on how to get add to Google...
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Jan. 4, 2007 at 9:08am by Barry Schwartz
Google Reader Adds Personalized Trends
The Official Google Reader Blog informed us that Google Reader has added a trends feature to Google Reader users. You can access your Reader trends here or via the link on the main page that reads "New! See personalized trends for your subscriptions and read items." This feature absolutely rocks...
