10 Suggestions for Google Reader, One Year Later |
| Published: March 9, 2008, 3:20 pm |
| Tags: technology, rssmeme, friendfeed, shyftr, rss, assetbar, google, linkriver, readburner, links, sharedreader, favorit |
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On March 3rd of last year, I posted one of the more active and popular posts in louisgray.com's history, offering my thoughts on where I hoped Google Reader would take the service. In a simple "10 suggestions" format, I listed some ideas that were small enhancements, and others, more broad. Now that we've had just over a year go by, I thought it'd be interesting to check back in with Google Reader and see what's changed. How many of the 10 did they hit, and if they didn't get it, who did?In my opinion, you'll see that due to Google Reader's not filling all the gaps I laid out a year ago, a cottage industry of RSS readers and link aggregators has emerged - great for the Web, not always so great for Google.1. "More Like This" SuggestionsI asked Google to recommend feeds based on those I subscribed to.Google added a broad "Suggestions" feature, based on all my feeds in aggregate. They haven't implemented this feature on a feed by feed basis, as in my example: "Others who subscribed to [ Full article ] |
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