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Google Reader continues to improve
November 7, 2007 |
Some nice additions to the Google Reader today (as well as a nice intro to the engineers behind it - always help to humanize a product).
First new addition is the option to make your subscriptions public as a blogroll.
I will give you code for a blogroll with a format similar to the Google Reader shared items widget you can see on the left of this post.
Second, the mobile version of the Google Reader now allows you to see trends and to change the number of items you see at once and you can turn of the reformating of linked pages for mobile browsers. The last one should be especially helpful for you iPhone addicts out there.
None of these are groundbreaking, but it shows that Google is taking the Reader serious and that the engineers behind it are working on it. Given how many other projects Google has released and left for dead, this is a nice change of pace, especially because the team now has somebody actually working 80% of the time on the Reader:
It’s also probably worth mentioning that as of last week, I’m no longer a 20%’er but a full-fledged 80%’er on the Reader team — working in my 20% time provided me with the perfect way to test the waters and eventually switch projects.
Update: Rizzn has some thoughts about the Blogroll idea - he thinks it doesn’t fulfill its purpose because it can’t be indexed by search engines (that’s a good observation, especially given that Google said the same thing today about AJAX sites):
In essence, if you have an empty spot on your blog you need to fill up, you could either get an ad, hand code some stuff, or put a mini-river up. Just don’t expect it to fulfill the purpose a blogroll serves.
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