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Google Reader should have a ton of smarter features, here's why...
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I love Google Reader, but given the number of users and feeds it has and the smarts of the team it should be able to: 1) Tell me what other items in my feeds link to the same story: help me manage my attention. 2) Support smart folders: Outlook and Newsgator have 'em. Gmail (via Quick Links) does too. Why not Reader? 3) Search unread items: you can search read items now, but not unread. I want to be able to say search for all items about X and mark them as read. What else?
- Steve Rubel
Agree and I have to add that the social features suck currently: sharing by making chat contacts is @#%&*.
- Nikos Anagnostou
I would like it to de-duplicate posts that somebody shares which I am already subscribed to. They should mention "this has been shared by ...." on one instnace of the post instead of showing me the post N number of times.
- Brian Sloane
I like Reader, but the folks over at Feedly are doing much more to extend and improve the product than the folks at Google.
- Robert Clockedile
Steve already mentioned it. But filtering items linking to the same story would be great. I'm getting annoyed when there is one story going around and every blog or website seems to write a post on it. But I know new other reader which is able to do this. Would be really a time saver.
- Matthias Faller
Problem is, Rob, you need a plug in.
- Steve Rubel
from IM
Agreed. It won't work for everybody, but it's got an excellent (and growing) set of features, including beta Ubiquity integration.
- Robert Clockedile
from twhirl
...I know, I know...another plug in.
- Robert Clockedile
from twhirl
This is probably a silly question but is there a way to see a list of every reader-article that I've emailed out to either myself or friends??
- Will DeLuca
I love Google Reader. I would like to be able to choose my page view. When I click to read an article the page is adapted for mobile phone, I would like to view in HTML. I know of no way to change this. It would be nice to be able to choose.
- Elizabeth
Google has a Digg competitor right in it's midst. I should be able to see most stared and most shared stories for the day, week, month etc.
- Tim
The one thing I want with Google Reader is the ability to hide shared items from specific sources (source of that wishlist item? FF, of course).
- Tamar Weinberg
I also love reader, but I would *love* to be able to setup rules to mark feeds with certain tags read once they become so old. For instance, I have feeds tagged as news and news-slow. Anything in news is stale after about 6 hours, anything in news-slow after about 2 days. I want to setup those preferences in Reader and have it mark those items as read for me, because going through yesterday's breaking news is a pain in the neck.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I like those suggestion Steve! Some of them are also applicable to feedly and the crowd we are catering. Thanks for kicking off this conversation! (Rob thanks for the support!)
- Edwin Khodabakchian
I would love for Google Reader to flag duplicate news stories as well, Steve.
- Liana Lehua
I wish they'd add Gtalk like in gmail. And adding friends/sharing has to be improved. I've also been unimpressed with search in greader.
- Graham English
Merge Google Reader and Google Bookmarks !
- Stanislas Jourdan
Hmm, I wonder if Google Bookmarks is dying too. It was integrated with Notebook.
- Steve Rubel
from IM
My guess is that google has hired the founder of delicious to try to do something big and consistent around tagging and bookmarking. Something that could tie together Chrome, Android, Google Bookmarks, Google Reader. At least this is what I am hoping. The fragmentation is pretty painful for the end user.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
Bookmarks sync is central to Chrome so somehow I think it will survive and become more social
- Steve Rubel
from IM
greader and gmail should merge. Both emails and feeds are easy to manage and access with the help of filters and labels. Email is a good tool to share with a wide variety of social networks.
- xavier vespa
the shared items doesn't have the proper rss feed format. Can't use it elsewhere without it getting all monkeyed up.. Also a mark as unread option. Themes seems a direction it should soon incorporate. A piping feature like Yahoo Pipes offers.
- Mike Skramstad
I love reader, but duplicates haven been driving me NUTS recently. I've recently started using Yahoo Pipes to combine some of of my feeds that commonly duplicate stories into one feed and remove duplicates.
- Steve Boerner
Greader needs to be integrated with gmail.
- Russ Jackson
one of my most desired options is to be able to sort my feeds by unread count, regardless of what folders they're in... so I get just a big list of all the feeds I'm subscribed to in order from feeds with 1 or 2 unread stories all the way to the feeds with 1000+ unread - I mentioned this to Edwin at Feedly and he seems keen to add into their product soon: http://getsatisfaction.com/feedly... - It's amazing to me that Google Reader doesn't offer that option already.
- Nathan Chase
Getting the duplicate stories out will be a little tough - especially if the feed you subscribe to doesn't link back to their source - but it can definitely be done... would just have to do some regex/fuzzy logic-type querying of post title, content, and outbound links on the page to determine a percentage of similarity. You could then have a similarity threshold slider to adjust your "duplicate filter".
- Nathan Chase
Are there perhaps other readers which do some of these?
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
I use reader heaps, but I'd still love more features!
- Will Higgins™
I'd like to save my searches in greader.
- Wallace
I, too, would like a pony with my gReader.
- David Chartier
from BuddyFeed
I would NOT want gmail and greader combined, but better social features in the sidebar would be nice. Also improve tagging and let me set time based rules. I like yahoo pipes, though I'm not sure google would want to add something like it as a feature of reader, but I would like a pony.
- John
I agree, the pony seems obvious, and it's certainly within Google's power to provide one for everyone.
- Michael C. Harris
The ability to offer 3rd party features is exactly what the purpose of the soon_to_be_launched "Google reader API", as discussed by Niall Kennedy, is. His post: http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog... There is also an unofficial reverse engineering project here: http://code.google.com/p...
- coldbrew
Duplicates within Reader are annoying. There is a script that helps with this but it's not great. It's certainly one problem with GR that needs looking at.
- Kol Tregaskes
On my Google Reader wish list: 1. smart recommender system for news of personal relevance 2. incremental search of subscriptions in left column 3. incremental search of unread items in right column, both for All items and in each folder 4. rename folders 5. delete folders 6. easier moving of folders and feeds from one location to another (perhaps cut and paste) 7. seamless integration with Friendfeed.
- Sean McBride
I'd like greader to be smart enough to know I already read a post - at the site, via an aggregator or ... No time for ponies
- MaryAnn Chick Whiteside
Plus could it stop letting me subscribe twice to the same feed :)
- MaryAnn Chick Whiteside
@mcwflint if you are a firefox user and install the feedly extension, you can configure feedly mini to mark articles as read in Google Reader when you visit websites directly.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
Thanks. I'll try it on the non iPhone days
- MaryAnn Chick Whiteside
This one would be useful: "search for all items about X and mark them as read." I like the search feature in Google Reader. When I notice an interesting news about a subject, I immediately search for it to read what has been said about it in my other feeds. 2 or 3 articles are usually more than enough to know more about it, so it would be really useful to be able to mark all the others as read.
- Mehdi Trimech
I'm loving Feedly so far. The fact that it is a plugin is very beneficial when you are generally surfing (not reading RSS), and you auto-discover the relevant conversations to join in on. Obviously Google will do something soon that will take me back to Reader, but for now I'm going to use Feedly
- Paul R. Grant
Feedly's picture grid view is awesome, but the fact that I can't mark items as unread keeps me from using it fulltime. Some innovation in the way feeds are displayed would add a lot to Google Reader. Here's some idea - picture grid (ala feedly), timeline, contextual view (grouped by content like videos, links, etc)
- Ashish Bogawat
Friendfeeders: did you notice that Microsoft's Channel 9 website has friendfeed icons? http://channel9.msdn.com/ More on that here:
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very forward thinking of them
- Zee.
Jeff Sandquist showed me lots of new stuff he's doing to keep his teams involved in Twitter, Facebook, and friendfeed worlds. I'll try to get a video up that I did with him, but gotta run to the airport in 30 minutes. Might be later tonight.
- Robert Scoble
Nice.
- David Wilson
Works better than the submit to digg ones ive tried to use.
- Simon Wicks
Would love to see the Tips Robert!!!
- Eric Gehler
All the PDC videos have them too. He told me to watch the Windows 7 keynote here: http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008...
- Robert Scoble
For me, channel9 got very boring after you left Robert. Wonder if it has changed?
- James Beake
James: I think Microsoft got boring. Windows 7makes it a little more interesting.
- Robert Scoble
for something interesting check out descry -- http://www.visitmix.com/lab... (more in robert's video tonight).
- Jeff Sandquist
I've just noticed now.
- Tyson Key
Here's my feedback. http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Alan Le
no kidding, wow
- Susan Beebe
I think google has no big ideas. this morning they announced a to-do-list. FGS. Remember the milk MUCH better. http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009...
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RTM ftw
- andy brudtkuhl
Aye, but I hate the fact that RTM doesn't have an outlook sync
- Seang-Lim Tan
Om, we need to have lunch. :) Also today: http://bit.ly/3EzaDS (Google is funding research on the Singularity). Yesterday, a full picture of the world's oceans, plus the ability to see historical imagery as slices over time. Recently, a completely open-source mobile operating system. Also recently, a fast web browser with a distinct philosophy of ease-of-use and radically improved security abstractions.
- Matt Cutts
Also in the last week: http://bit.ly/SAq8 New details emerge of Google's research into crawling the deep web. It's live on google.com now and has substantially improved Google's relevance and coverage over other search engines.
- Matt Cutts
Also in the last week: Google releases a whole set of tools to make broadband measurements more easy. This has long-term implications from net neutrality to censorship to debugging desktop applications: http://bit.ly/Mkkz
- Matt Cutts
Also in the last week: an update on the dozens of ways that Google is pushing open-source forward, from direct contributions to software packages http://bit.ly/146Ln to post-commit hooks on Google Code, our open-source project hosting: http://bit.ly/aOFO . The latter allows anyone to kick off all kinds of flexible HTTP POSTs to the open web after a commit.
- Matt Cutts
Also in the last week: offline Gmail. "Oh well, other companies have already introduced that," you say. Absolutely right; we took more time to make sure that offline Gmail worked well. But in many cases, that offline ability is based off of Gears, which was a big idea proposed and pushed forward by Google. Gears is a big idea that enables all sorts of useful innovations.
- Matt Cutts
looks like M.Cutts just laid out the innovation smack down!
- shayne catrett
Also in the last week: mentions of major research funding for the next Big Ideas in search and beyond: http://bit.ly/exGQ These are important ideas that Google is encouraging in academia.
- Matt Cutts
Look, a to-do list might not seem like a Big Idea. And that's okay. Not every launch is going to be a Big Idea. Sometimes it's going to be iterating and improving. I think a ubiquitous to-do list accessible via mobile/xhtml phone, Gmail, or web/gadget is pretty handy. But Google still has plenty of Big Ideas and ways that we're pushing the web and the world forward.
- Matt Cutts
The ocean project seems like big enough idea to me. I completely second Matt Cutts that Big G is not out of big ideas :)
- Varun Mahajan
Google really doesn't need any more big ideas IMO. They're behaving like a more mature company and doing more with their current ideas. 'Big ideas' often turn out to be a big waste of time and a distraction from the core business - hence the pretty radical trimming that has taken place lately. [edit] So something like Google Books which has been taking place for ages ... will finally pay off after the settlement is finalized. *That* is a big idea, but it's one they've had for 5+ years.
- AJ Kohn
I think it can be safely said that Malik's off-color comment has been ceremoniously dismantled
- coldbrew
Om pwned. --ET
- Charlie Wood
Google has *too many* ideas, I think, is the real problem, and they rarely anymore bother to make anything truly great. Matt, I wouldn't be bragging about Google Offline either. I had to discontinue use after one day b/c it kept switching me to offline mode and I kept getting "Still working...." messages throughout the day, despite being connected to my home internet connection with no problems or slow downs in any of the other sites or services I had open.
- C. K. Sample III
Even after reading Matt Cutts' list I'd still agree with Om's comment.
- Craig Overend
Where is the answer from Om?
- Edwin Khodabakchian
So I did end up posting my response -- sure Matt makes good/great points in some cases but also glosses over a few things. Of course, we are disagreeing. http://gigaom.com/2009...
- Om Malik
For me, it seems that some of my favorite Google projects have been messed with without direction. They integrated Bookmarks with Notebook, now have stopped work on Notebook(?) Now they add tasks to gmail only. I use notebook all across the web, including gmail. It's just confusing to me. I wonder if my RTM account is still valid.
- adam garrett
The need of the hour is a good open strategy and let other dev's improve on ideas the Google has already implemented. There are API's but they lack the control one wants.
- Ritesh
For me, it was Google Earth's upgrade but did anyone stop and think that Google is throwing a bunch of stuff out there (using their current resources) to find out what becomes 'the big idea' ?
- Charlie Anzman
@om, hypothetically speaking, what if google's to-do saves 10, 5 or 1 million people (30m total users) 10 extra minutes/day, 5 days/week? Certainly nothing small about that right! Same goes for any and all efficiency tools/features put out by yahoo/ms/fb - if even 1/2 of those extra minutes get re-invested/re-converted back into productive labor, the impact/effect will be quite large over the long-term. :)
- Will DeLuca
How to Use Twitterfall: Digg Spy for Tweets - http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/how-to-...
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"Twitterfall is a new application (kind of like Digg Spy) that lets you monitor upcoming trends on twitter. It was only launched a few days ago, but the reception seems very favourable. Although not groundbreaking, there are some unique positive points about the service. First off, it lets you view up to 60 tweets. The frequency of the tweets monitored so far is pretty fast, in fact faster than twitter search. By far the biggest benefit of the service is the customisation of your search trends – although this is in beta at the moment, I think there are some great opportunities to develop further."
- Isha (Marysia)
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Giant type on Google.com?
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Note YouTube link.
- Steve Rubel
I don't see it because they localize the homepage by country. And even if I choose Google.com I get a different page. I wish they'd stop doing that. They're doing it now for YouTube as well, so I can't visit YouTube.com at all.
- Dominic Jones
Was freak out for a Second when I first saw it.. :)
- Eric Gehler
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