Google Reader

November 1, 2011

Tuesday, November 01, 2011 11:37 AM/EST

Former Google Reader PM Calls Changes a "Disaster"

Google+ has been integrated with Reader and now users hate Google for dropping the Reader social tools.

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January 26, 2010

Tuesday, January 26, 2010 11:14 AM/EST

Google Reader Now Lets You Follow Feedless Websites

Google alters Reader to let users create custom feeds to track updates on Web pages that lack feeds. It's a simple change, but one that closes the gap between readers and Website publishers looking to reach them.

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October 23, 2009

Friday, October 23, 2009 12:01 AM/EST

Google Reader Gets Personal (In a Good Way)

Google Reader launches "Popular items" and "Recommended sources," as two ways to find interesting content from all over the Internet. Google has also departed from sorting in default chronological order with a new "magic" sorting option that offers feed items based on personal usage and overall activity in Reader.

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August 13, 2009

Thursday, August 13, 2009 11:35 AM/EST

Google Reader Now Lets You Launch Content to Twitter, Facebook, Digg

Google Reader lets users post content to Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Blogger,Delicious, MySpace, Reddit and StumbleUpon. Users can also tell Reader to mark as read only stories that are older than a day, older than a week or older than two weeks.

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July 23, 2009

Thursday, July 23, 2009 9:46 AM/EST

Google Reader Offers to Show Likes Only For Those We Follow

Google now lets users choose to see "likes" for only those contacts they follow -- friends, family and colleagues instead of everyone in the world. What do you think about this feature? Should Google offer even more granular social controls for Reader? I say yes.

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July 16, 2009

Thursday, July 16, 2009 12:16 PM/EST

Google Reader Now More Social Even for the Antisocial

Maybe I just have a hard time with Reader being socialized when it's a fine work tool for me. I've already made peace with seeing "likes" at the tops of stories; I choose not to click on them. It's a time-waster for me. I'm going to read what I'm going to read without outside influence.

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December 5, 2008

Friday, December 05, 2008 8:54 AM/EST

Google Reader Revamp Enables Speedier Feed Reading

Google Reader is a fraction of a second or two faster, but other changes are less appreciated.

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November 11, 2008

Tuesday, November 11, 2008 4:42 PM/EST

Excelente! Google Reader Goes Polylingual

Google Reader is getting mucho love for its language translation, but no one appears to be asking the obvious.

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August 19, 2008

Tuesday, August 19, 2008 12:13 PM/EST

Obama, McCain on Board for Google Power Readers

Update: Did Obama and McCain really create lists and send them to Google to create these site feeds?

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December 28, 2007

Friday, December 28, 2007 1:29 PM/EST

Google Reader, Facebook Beacon Test Murky Social Waters

Despite the public relations setbacks, Google and Facebook should get credit for attempting to make forays into online realms that scare up all sort of ethical issues and privacy concerns ...

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