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Re: Could Google Reader Become the Next Friendfeed?

Phil Ashman — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:57:05 -0000

I also rely on FriendFeed for my 'send to' functionality. Although I like the idea of commenting directly within Google Reader it does bring up the same dilemma as FriendFeed. Should I comment on the post directly on the Blog or within Greader? I think the power of keeping it within google, is that if you develop a close nit community of people whose opinions you value, then you have yourself a somewhat moderated comment system. I think this would work well for popular sites like Techcrunch where you might have 200+ comments for an article, but for more intimate blogs that don't see a lot of comments, it's probably more valuable to comment on the blog direction.

Re: Could Google Reader Become the Next Friendfeed?

Minu L. Nianda — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 08:51:52 -0000

With FriendFeed lovers trying to find an alternative since FriendFeed was acquired by Facebook, this is excellent news. I wonder if the comments people post in Google Reader will be able to be tweeted. I'm looking forward to the newer and greater features that Google will offer to stay in the Social Media game.

Re: Could Google Reader Become the Next Friendfeed?

marshal sandler — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 07:11:32 -0000

I find your article very interesting since I have always felt that Google has a true management style ! The Geeks are always telling us what they don't do but they do most things with style and not to quickly, speed in development with out trail error and though gave us the Edsel ! I think your view as an educator is the correct view no Gotchas's- I am 73 years old I use Gmail Google Voice Google Reader and not being a Geek find them perfect applications ! Google has successfully integrated mathematics semantics and general semantics-and have defined their territories-
http://communication.ucsd.e...

Re: Could Google Reader Become the Next Friendfeed?

petegilbert — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 06:20:04 -0000

It's a good start, they just need to tidy everything up and make it easier to manage things. You have to go here and there to manage profiles, groups, people etc. It's a mess. Add Google Wave into the equation and things get really messy. God I hope they do that... ;)

Re: Could Google Reader Become the Next Friendfeed?

Paisano® — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 22:27:04 -0000

It's about time. I've been asking why Google hasn't done more with reader for years.
Look at what 3 guys have done at Streamy... http://Streamy.com
Not just a feed reader but friendfeed like conversations long ago along with meebo like IM intgration for all messengers as well as integration with other networks including twitter, facebook, etc.
it's amazing stuff. I think Google will buy streamy and incorporate into google reader.
Yahoo has been just as slow with delicious, only recently adding good social features for sharing.
Sleeping giants are frustrating.

Re: Could Google Reader Become the Next Friendfeed?

gregsmithsays — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:52:55 -0000

Interesting... I'm battling with one SEND TO. I'm trying to get Google Reader to SEND TO my opera.

http://my.opera.com/gregsmi...

You'll notice I've blogged about this and I'm still pulling my hair out figuring out how to autopost.

Anyway... thanks for the info
greg