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Google Reader Adds Magic to Your Feeds
mashable.com - 10/25/2009
Google Reader Adds Magic to Your Feeds
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Google added a couple of nice changes to Reader to serve the goals of improving your discovery of new items and personalizing your feed reading experience. First up, they’ve introduced a new Explore section designed to enhance discovery. A new “Popular items” section helps ...
Official Google Reader Blog: Reading gets personal with Popular items and Personalized ranking
googlereader.blogspot.com - 10/22/2009
Official Google Reader Blog: Reading gets personal with Popular items and Personalized ranking
— googlereader.blogspot.com — Explore section - We're always trying to help you discover new stuff in Reader, and today we're... introducing "Popular items" and "Recommended sources", two ways to find interesting content from all over the Internet. We use algorithms to find ... (more) Official Google Reader Blog: Reading gets personal with ...

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scobleizer.posterous.com - 10/29/2009
Why I don't use Google Reader anymore
— scobleizer.posterous.com — I used to be the biggest user of Google Reader. At one point the Google Reader team... told me I shared more items than anyone else. But lately it's a rare month I've checked into it and Twitter is in the process of adding a new feature -- lists -- ... (more) Why I don't use Google Reader anymore

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Palm Pre App Catalog Hits 300 Titles [jkOnTheRun]
jkontherun.com - 10/31/2009
Palm Pre App Catalog Hits 300 Titles [jkOnTheRun]
— jkontherun.com — For those keeping score in the mobile software wars, it’s roughly 100,000 to 10,000 to 300. That’s... the number of available apps for iPhone, Android, and webOS devices, respectively. Although the number of apps for Palm is relatively much ... (more) Palm Pre App Catalog Hits 300 Titles [jkOnTheRun]

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Download Squad:  Google Reader now sorts your feeds "by magic"

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Google Reader now sorts your feeds "by magic"
Download Squad — ... articles to the top of your list. To make this happen, go to the settings dropdown for one of your feeds or folders and choose "sort by magic." The magic is actually an algorithm that takes into account what you read and share in Reader, and it seems to work pretty well. I'm not a frequent Google Reader user, and even my relatively untrained recommendations were interesting. If you share and like items on a regular basis, yours will likely be even better. [via Mashable] Google Reader now sorts your feeds "by magic" originally appeared on Download ...

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