Google looked a lot like a charity in the beginning. They didn't have ads for over a year. At year 1, Google was indistinguishable from a nonprofit. If a nonprofit or government organization had started a project to index the web, Google at year 1 is the limit of what they'd have produced. - Jason Shellen
I bet it wouldn't be too hard to create a greasemonkey script that adds a "Like" button to Google Reader. It could share the entry in Google Reader, wait 10 seconds for FriendFeed to sync, then call the FriendFeed API to "like" it there for you. - DeWitt Clinton
Hey, a week ago you couldn't comment in Google Reader either. Give it time... - Ontario Emperor
It's funny though, as I actually hope FriendFeed will switch to stars (like Google Reader) instead of "like". See the long thread on here about "liking" things that are pretty horrible, and really just want to flag it as interesting or through-provoking. - DeWitt Clinton
Actually, stars would address a concern of mine. If there's an outstanding story about the Austrian family abuse situation, I hate to say that I "like" it. - Ontario Emperor
I'd like it if FF detected a "Share" on gReader and interpreted it as a "like", just like it detects Notes there and shows them as comments here. - James Polley
Hello was awesome. It showed a lot of the Picasa teams forward thinking about photos and co-browsing on the web. I always wanted a Mac version, of course I'm still waiting for a native Mac version of Google Talk as well. Hopefully it is gone but not forgotten. - Jason Shellen
Gone, but never forgotten, just like Jason Shellen! - Mike
