scobleizer.posterous.com - 10/29/2009
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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 -- that is getting me off of Google Reader ...
jkontherun.com - 10/31/2009
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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 ...
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Palm Pre App Catalog Hits 300 Titles [jkOnTheRun]
help.twitter.com - 11/3/2009
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help.twitter.com —
Using Twitter via SMS Twitter is a new
kind of technology that uses multiple methods of communication...
to help keep you in touch with people and information you care about. Using Twitter with your phone will change the feel of Twitter for ...
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"Twitter Phone FAQ" in Using Twitter with your phone - ...
googleblog.blogspot.com - 10/26/2009
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googleblog.blogspot.com —
This is part of a regular series of
posts on search experience updates that runs on Fridays....
Look for the label "This week in search" and subscribe to the series. - Ed. Twitter On Wednesday, we announced our newly-formed partnership with Twitter . ...
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Official Google Blog: This week in search 10/24/09
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Why I don’t use Google Reader anymore
Scobleizer —
... An hour or so ago I wrote a post over on my Posterous Blog about why I don’t use Google Reader much anymore and it’s already gotten a ton of interesting comments and been viewed 1,600 times. Since it’s the middle of the night in San Francisco, that tells me it was a popular post and I wanted to make sure that those of you who are just reading me only here (probably because you’re using an RSS reader) I wanted to make sure you had a chance to see this and comment on it. ...
Using Twitter Lists Instead of Google Reader [WebWorkerDaily]
GigaOM Network —
... ” — which generated some fairly heated discussion in the comments — Robert Scoble has posted “Why I don’t use Google Reader anymore” in which he describes why he no longer uses Google Reader, preferring instead to rely solely on Twitter (and its new Lists feature) to keep up to date. Scoble uses Twitter’s new Lists feature (which Darrell ...
Google’s Walled Garden
Stay N' Alive —
... is good at he is definitely good at getting us bloggers talking. Today he shared on Posterous (which I am subscribed and read in Google Reader) his reasons for not using ...
The Story of Google's Closure: Advanced JavaScript Tools
louisgray.com —
... Google Reader users are clear. Mihai estimates that without Closure, Reader's JavaScript code would be a massive 2 megabytes, which reduces to 513 kilobytes with Closure, and all the way down to 184 kilobytes using gzip, supported by nearly all browsers. Additional benefits include the near-elimination of concerns around browser differentiation, and an extremely manageable large JavaScript codebase "that doesn''t get out of control as it ages and accumulates features", he said. (Note download time was given as the main reason Robert Scoble has moved away from ...
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Google Reader Adds Magic to Your Feeds
mashable.com 10/25/2009 — 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 ...
Google Reader's Personalized Ranking
googlesystem.blogspot.com 10/27/2009 — Google Reader added a feature that tries to sort the posts from your subscriptions based on your interests. The option is called "sort by magic" and it's available in any Google Reader view, but it's not enabled by default. "Your personalized ranking ...
Google Reader gets even more Sociable! —
PalmAddicts
For those of you who keep track of your RSS feeds on Google Reader, like I do, then did you know there have been some recent changes? "Recently though there have been some changes sneaking into Google Reader, expanding it’s functionality as a feed aggregator, and adding a heap of social ...
Google Reader now sorts your feeds "by magic" —
Download Squad
Google has made a couple of big improvements to Google Reade r, aimed at helping you easily sift through all those RSS feeds to get to the stories you'll find most relevant. One set of new features focuses on finding relevant content that you weren't already aware of, and another feature ...
Google Reader sneaks in a couple of awesome updates —
The Next Web
If you haven’t already noticed, and frankly I couldn’t find the new features even after I’d been told , Google has added a couple of very useful little updates to the web’s leading RSS app, Google Reader
Let’s crack on, first up:
Explore section: Above your ...
Google adds more personalization to Reader —
Webware.com
Google has added new personalization features to Reader, its RSS feed aggregator, the company wrote in a blog post Thursday .
One new feature is dubbed Popular Items. Using algorithms, Reader will "find top-rising images, videos and pages from anywhere (not just your ...
Google Makes Google Reader More Personal —
WebProNews Feed
Google has added some new things to Google Reader in order to deliver a more personalized experience for the user. The company compares the features to how personalized search improved search results based on search history. Google thinks the new changes will have a similar affect on users' ...
Google Reader Gets Personal (In a Good Way) —
Google Watch
Google has launched some new features that should please die-hard users of Google Reader, the company's feed reader.
First, the Explore section has a new section dubbed "Popular items" that uses algorithms to find rising images, videos and pages from the entire Internet and orders them by ...