The Official Google Reader Blog is reporting what I noticed when I logged in to Google Reader three minutes ago: that you can now see your GTalk (or GMail chat) friends’ Shared Items right inside Google Reader, and they can see yours.
Prior to this, you could email your friends a hugegantic link to your Shared Items list, but having it all together like this is awesome.
Like Scoble, I use the Facebook Google Reader app called “Feedheads,” which is awesome, but I hate visiting Facebook all the time, so this new feature is quite welcome. It doesn’t approach Feedheads in terms of sheer utility, but it is a great little thing that helps connect what have up until recently been relatively separate apps.
Is it just me, or does Google seem to be rolling out stuff at a frenzied pace these last couple months?
14 December 2007
Google Reader And GTalk Are Friends!
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That's a very cool feature I've waited so long for it to happen! :D
I also dislike going to facebook to check out the shared items. Mario Romero (Feedhead's creator) foresaw this and that's why he added feeds to the shared items. Actually kind of just what Google did just now.
The drawback is that if you suscribe from your primary networks and then from the Top Shared Items, you get a lot of duplicate items, which you can easily filter out by using, for example, a Yahoo Pipe. Here's one I created that filters out repeated items based on their links.
Now, filtering would be really really cool if it was made by the gReader engine... say, a "related items" for the item you're viewing??
Thanks for the comment, dekaru. I didn't realize that Feedheads had a feed. And thanks for sharing your Pipe.
The duplicate content problem is one that this new Google Reader feature has as well, according to Robert Scoble (I don't have enough friends who share stuff to have run into this yet, though.)
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