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• Shortcut Screencast Contest: Open Google Reader links in one keystroke

  Published: July 27, 2007, 9:30 am

  Tags: Clips, Google Reader, Keyboard Shortcuts, Screencasts, Shortcut Screencast Contest, Top, Video Demonstration

  Reader Johnny uses a bookmarklet and a Firefox bookmark keyword to navigate directly to the next new post in his Google Reader subscription list. What magic is this, you ask? Hit the play button to see it in action. Johnny just earned himself an autographed copy of Lifehacker the book. Last call for screencasts! Submit yours to the Shortcut

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• Technophilia: Get productive with the best Facebook Apps

  Published: July 30, 2007, 12:00 pm

  Tags: Amazon, Calendar, Del Icio Us, Digg, Document Sharing, Documents, Facebook, Feature, Feeds, File Sharing, File Storage, Files, Getting Things Done, Getting To Done, Google, Google Calendar, Google Reader, Gtd, Image Editing, Last Fm, Lists, Media, Media Player, Netflix, Photos

  what you're reading via the Google Reader app; displays only your shared items. Web search Search Google, Amazon, and Wikipedia from within Facebook with Search. Of course, there are many more Facebook apps that are productive, unlike this one, or this one, or maybe even this one; so tell us your favorite Facebook applications in the

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• Beta Beat: Web-based feed reader Bloglines is testing ...

  Published: August 27, 2007, 11:21 am

  Tags: Beta Beat, Bloglines, Feed Readers, Feeds, Google Reader, Rss

  Web-based feed reader Bloglines is testing a swanky new beta interface. Enough to make you switch from Google Reader? Jury's still out while we test.

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• Beta Beat: Bloglines Launches New Beta with Personalized Features

  Published: August 27, 2007, 11:25 am

  Tags: Beta Beat, Bloglines, Feed Readers, Feeds, Google Reader, Rss, Screenshot Tour, Top

  Web-based feed reader Bloglines releases a brand new beta redesign to the public, which sports drag-and-drop AJAX goodness and a customizable start page. The beta, available at beta.bloglines.com, has the familiar feel of the old Bloglines with lots of new enhancements. Highlights of the Bloglines beta include:Customizable Start Page. Drag

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• Google Adds Search To Google Reader

  Published: September 6, 2007, 2:07 am

  Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Google, Google Reader

  most popular online RSS reader (depending on what stats you believe) just got better. Google has announced that Google Reader now has search. The search box is located directly above the reading panel to the right of the Google Reader logo. Users can search all subscribed feeds or search by category/ tag. Google Readers biggest competitor

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• Newsflash: Google Reader Adds Search Box, Users Rejoice

  Published: September 6, 2007, 2:40 am

  Tags: Google, Google Reader, Newsflash, Newsreader, Rss, Search Engines, Top

  Google has finally added the long-awaited search box to their popular web-based RSS reader, Google Reader. Now you can search across all of your subscribed feeds as a whole, or more granularly across tags or even individual subscriptions. The lack of a built-in search box has always been the most conspicuous missing feature in a newsreader built

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• Google Reader Adds Search & Other Features

  Published: September 6, 2007, 9:19 am

  Tags: Google Reader

  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 can now hide the left hand pane and

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• Google Reader problems

  Published: September 8, 2007, 1:45 pm

  Tags: Google Reader, Googlereader, Tuaw, Tuaw Feed, Tuawfeed

  under: TUAW BusinessSeveral readers have let us know that our feed isn't updating in Google Reader. Our team of crack web ninjas is looking into this and I have faith that a solution will be found shortly. Until that time I suggest Google Reader users visit TUAW.com and repeatedly hit Command-R.Thanks to everyone who let us know.Permalink

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• Search: Google Reader Supports Search Operators

  Published: September 11, 2007, 7:00 pm

  Tags: Google, Google Reader, Newsreader, Rss, Search, Search Operators, Search Techniques, Top

  search operators you use in Google's search box work in the new Google Reader search, and the Google Operating System weblog rounds them up along with a few other Reader search tips. For example:2. Exact matches: put quotation marks around your search terms to get the results that include an exact phrase. 3. Wildcard: use an asterisk to

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• Google May Add Comment Feature On Shared Reader Feeds

  Published: September 11, 2007, 9:59 pm

  Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Google, Google Reader

  are polled every hour (so Reader is intentionally slow at picking things up). The Google Reader backend stores 10 terebytes of data from 8 million feeds, and according to Feedburner stats Google Reader is the most popular feed reader, followed by My Yahoo. Its great stuff from the Reader team, and kudos for their ongoing innovation of a great

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• Legal and Ethical Link Blogging

  Published: September 12, 2007, 6:04 pm

  Tags: Legal Issues, Articles, News, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Duncan Riley, Google, Google Reader, Plagiarism, Robert Scoble, Rss, Scoble, Scraping, Spam Blogs, Splogging, Splogs, Techcrunch

  as the linkblogs created by Google Reader are not that they reuse content, but that they provide little motivation for the reader to click through to the original site or the original feed. Where sites such as Digg and Reddit have amassed a great deal of support among both visitors and Webmasters for their ability to drive great deals of traffic

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• Skins: The previously posted Mac-like Google Reader ...

  Published: September 13, 2007, 1:59 am

  Tags: Google Reader, Greasemonkey, Skins, Stylish

  The previously posted Mac-like Google Reader theme has been updated to accommodate GReader's new search box. Slick.

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• Featured Greasemonkey User Script: Collapse the Reader Sidebar wtih Google Reader Minimalistic

  Published: September 13, 2007, 11:33 am

  Tags: Featured Greasemonkey User Script, Google Reader, User Scripts

  Google Reader Minimalistic Greasemonkey script strips the header and makes the sidebar collapsible in GReader to maximize reading space (much like this GCal script). The developer says: The end result is a screen that actually fits on my laptop a lot better, especially when you collapse the left hand navigation bar (with the arrow). Knowing

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• Google Reader: Perfect Your Workflow

  Published: September 16, 2007, 11:00 am

  Tags: Feed Reader, Google Reader, Top, Workflow

  you've already tweaked Google Reader, but you're still on the hunt for even more GTD hacks, then John of Library Clips has just made your day with an exquisitely detailed article on how he has set up his Reader workflow. Every step is all about personal productivity here: from labels and tags to outside tools he uses to supplement his feed

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• How to Data Mine Google Reader Feeds for Trends

  Published: September 21, 2007, 1:46 pm

  Tags: Data Mining, Google Reader, Visualization

  patterns "on film.") Google Reader - my favorite RSS application - recently added a powerful search functionality that has made me infinitely better at studying people and their social patterns. Using Google Reader you can now search an individual feed, tag or a folder and get back a total item count, all sorted by date for as long as you

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