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Works fine for me Zee: ""150 of the Most Influential Tech News and Blogs" bundle created by Zee Description: Spent ages collecting these and here they for everything to enjoy. A bundle is a collection of blogs and websites hand-selected by your friend on a particular topic or interest. You can keep up to date with them all in one place by subscribing in Google Reader. There are 175 feeds included in this bundle"
- Nicholas James
clearly a lot of people like the idea of this but not the sharing part
- Zee.
This actually is a smart move from Google. This "bundles" feature now makes it much easier for new users to get started with lots of sources in Google Reader. Now even people that aren't ahead-of-the-curve-social-media-experts can enjoy the wonderful benefits of having too much to read.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
I'm loving this thread. I went and grabbed the newsier bundles from this thread and pulled them into a room. I'll keep adding to that too. guruvy-headlines: http://friendfeed.com/guruvy-...
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
seriously, you guys suck! :P 64 likes and only 3 people have shared their bundles...
- Zee.
Zee: no one believes me when I say that very few people are using Google Reader. I have more than 40x more people reading me here than on Google Reader and I was the #1 user of Google Reader for quite a while (according to the Google Reader team). That's just one small reason why I've shifted over to where the readers are: Facebook, Twitter, and friendfeed.
- Robert Scoble
Hey, it would be interesting to ask how many people still use Google Reader. See, i think loads and loads do, but few bother sharing or socializing via it.
- Zee.
Zee: according to my blog's referer log you're wrong. Measurement tells all. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Boy, this sounds interesting! I gotta try it..
- Raj Rikhy
@Robert but don't you share your full content via RSS?
- Zee.
I don't always visit reader because it can simply be overwhelming. Friendfeed and Twitter are more amenable to "partial attention" whereas Reader pretty much requires total focus for an extended period if I'm going to get use out of it. I only have that kind of time once every week or so, whereas I can keep Tweetie running most of the time without feeling too distracted by it.
- Jason Wehmhoener
Jason -- the key to using Google Reader effectively (for me) is to focus on a few carefully defined folders, and feel under no pressure whatever to "catch up" with all your unread items. Just skim off the cream.
- Sean McBride
I love my Google Reader but MAN I wish organization were easier.
- Mona Nomura
Mona -- ever try dragging and dropping a GR folder from one location to another when you have a long list of folders? :) It's surrealistic.
- Sean McBride
Though I use my reader you see my preference in the fact I went and aggregated these bundles here. I only use it as quick storage of feed addresses and to make sure I don't miss important items from my favorite writers that might have been missed in the noise. But now I'm starting to use the same client I use for most of my twitter and friendfeed to get my rss, PeopleBrowsr :)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
from f2p
Though I use my reader you see my preference in the fact I went and aggregated these bundles here. I only use it as quick storage of feed addresses and to make sure I don't miss important items from my favorite writers that might have been missed in the noise. But now I'm starting to use the same client I use for most of my twitter and friendfeed to get my rss, PeopleBrowsr :)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
from f2p
thats very interesting. Thanks for the hard work Zee. And I think you're right in your comment that many people still use Greader, though they might not use it as a sharing tool.
- Peter Efland
Sean, it sounds nice, and it works for a while, but I seem to collect feeds faster than our floor collects fur from our two dogs and two cats. I've found that I get more out of it if I don't "skim" but actually devote a solid chunk of time to it (just not very regularly).
- Jason Wehmhoener
Jason -- by "skim off the cream" I meant to pay very close attention to the small set of GR items that really matter, and to use folders to corral those items. (Skim off, not skim.)
- Sean McBride
That "small set" just isn't very small for me. Got lotsa folders.
- Jason Wehmhoener
Sean is talking about a way of narrowing down Google Reader content, paying attention to "small set of GR items that really matter" but I'm saying that the items that really matter to me actually make up a somewhat large set.
- Jason Wehmhoener
I've got over 1,000 GR feeds and over 100 GR folders, but I tend to gravitate towards and focus on a few folders in which the most interesting stuff clusters most strongly.
- Sean McBride
I've already been making heavy use of this as I'm working on a paper and my co-authors and I have been sending lots of files back and forth. It's super-awesome!
- Ruchira S. Datta
yeah, this is pretty bad ass. i'm glad we finally shipped this thing.
- Dustin
I've hooked up with a few of you already and find some great articles, thank you! Feel free to hook up with me at http://www.google.com/reader... and my Gmail is kolint at gmail dot com. I warn you though, I share quite a bit! ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Also, my Google profile is here: http://www.google.com/s2... - not sure when the photos wont' show the correct set in Flickr and why I have multiple 'my places on the UK map and one in the US, but there you go. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Use it lots - rarely bother adding notes though ...
- Patrick Jordan
I have used the feedly share button often in the past, just used the new feedly popup bar for the first time a few minutes ago. If I want to keep it for later, I'll use a bookmarking service. If I don't care about it sticking around, friendfeed directly. If I want something in the middle, an archive of it kept but don't need it organzed by tags, etc, shares work well.
- Michael W. May
I notice that Robert and Kol both have a pretty banner graphic at the top of their pages, yet mine shows just my name. How did you guys get that? I don't see a setting for it.
- Joey Gibson
Joey, if you click Shared Items in GReader at the top you should have an option to style for your shared page. I guess that is where the banner has come from.
- Kol Tregaskes
Ill share when in front of a computer
- Shevonne
from fftogo
I have a hierarchy of gestures that get pushed to FF. Delicious saves are things I want to refer to again. FF direct posts are interesting stuff that is of temporary relevance. Google reader shares are stuff that is marginally interesting but not important enough to go to the page and add a FF link with Shareaholic.
- Peter Kelley
@Kol, thanks. I looked everywhere but there.
- Joey Gibson
I've recently switched back to Feedly again, but I get Kols shared items already anyway
- Ian May
@kol thanks for initiating this conversation. We created a virtual google reader account and imported all the shared feeds in this list: it will make the feedly recommendation that much smarter. Should be able to export the opml if people are interested.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
Why, oh why are you sharing it here? You're already feeding all of this into friendfeed anyway.
- Richard A.
True, but pick and chose your favourites. I'm liking the sound of this filter though. The major problem with Google Reader, for me anyway, is the lack of a duplication detector. OK, it's got to be pretty clever to know I've read this article in this folder already when I find the same article in another folder but some of of dup detector is needed.
- Kol Tregaskes
http://www.google.com/reader.... You'll find me here sharing internet/new media and tech related stuff I find interesting. I link to FriendFeed so you can get the same content there (plus more) if you prefer.
- Neill Adamson
Yep I use PostRank (used to be called AideRSS) for my main feeds, works very well.
- Kol Tregaskes
Edwin, I'll be interested to at least check it out?
- Kol Tregaskes
It seems to work great. Only 5 Google Calendars though.
- Wallace Wilson
I'd try it out but iPhone has this odd limitation of only one "Exchange" account at a time and I already sync with my Work Exchange. :(
- Paul Wade
Yes, this is ONLY useful if you don't already sync your iPhone to an Exchange server!
- Stephen Foskett
Love this. Hope that Apple end up supplementing lost MobileMe revenue with increased handset marketshare. Want to know if GoogleSync and MobileMe can be used in tandemn (until MobileMe subscription expires).
- Conor Ogle
Working well on WinMO so far, just needed to backup and import my outlook contacts into Google first. Looking forward to this thing moving
- Tyler Brownfield
Conor, I don't see why not. I have my work exchange server and my mobileme account (along with Yahoo, Gmail (email)) all on the same iphone and it all works great. I just wish I could add a second exchange account for Google.
- Paul Wade
Worked for me on my Windows Mobile, but I couldn't sync my calendar, as i'm already syncing elsewhere!
- Les Zaldor
Thanks. Do you think a one-time sync to get Google in line with MobileMe is going to be enough? I'm concerned about one overwriting the other.
- Conor Ogle
Google sync uses ActiveSync in Windows Mobile. This means I can't sync to both it and my work exchange server... such a bummer.
- Alan Le
Conor, MobileMe and Exchange Activesync are kept completely separate on the iPhone. No data crossover at all.
- Paul Wade
I like the thought, but I won't put it to use. I don't want my personal stuff, mixing with my work stuff anymore... Maybe another time, remember it's beta, but we all know google will keep it beta for like 2 years (i.e. gmail still beta) lol
- Jayson Flint
Working here, fantastic - been waiting for this for a while. If you have multiple Google Calendars make sure to visit m.google.com/sync on the phone (not on the computer) and select the additional calendars you want to sync.
- Ben
I've had this for some time now using nuevasync.com... but, now I can sync directly to google, and remove nuevasync from the equation. nice.
- Neil Bernhart
This is a major game changer IMO. Why would any small business owner want Blackberry or Exchange servers at this point? GMail allows you to park a domain & gives you 7+ gigs for free. With OTA sync, you get the Blackberry-esque features, also for free. If I have 10-50 employees, I have the choice of hosting multiple servers onsite with multiple moving parts along with purchasing CALs, HW & SW maintenance, and dealing with never-ending storage needs. Or, I could let someone else do it for little to no cost.
- Peter Ghosh
oh, and beware... push eats battery life on the 3G like there's no tomorrow. if you can live with getting updates every 15 min, I would stick with fetch.
- Neil Bernhart
NuevaSync has been offering the same service from months on the iPhone and other phones. It can also do up to 8 calendars.
- Chris Williams
Only one calendar is synced from Google. Nuevasync supports multiple calendars.
- Jared B. Luther
Jared, you can sync up to 5 cals with Google Sync. Sadly, none of them can be shared calendars from what I'm seeing. Sticking with NuevaSync for now.
- Kevin C. Tofel
@Kevin - they can be shared. I'm viewing shared and even public calendars with Google Sync on my iPhone.
- Wallace Wilson
Is this one of those things that doesn't work with Google Apps for your domain? It doesn't seem to want to work for me.
- Ryan Anderson
I am a Google Apps user and I am getting nada. Me thinks I will be heading back over to Nuevasync.
- Matt Martin
@Peter, if I was a small business owner, one thing that I'd consider is the security. Google Apps doesn't give you any ability to manage the device. Both BES and Exchange allow you to remotely kill or hobble a device as well as push custom apps and security policies. You can get BES free for less than 10 devices or go to hosted Exchange/BES. Sure it costs you money, but businesses should be concerned about where all that data is going and being stored.
- Kenton
@Ryan, I found the fix. You need to go into the dashboard for your domain and enable the sync.
- Matt Martin
@Ryan and Matt: It DOES work on hosted domains. You need to login to your Google Apps admin control panel and enable sync.
- Peter Ghosh
@Peter, thanks for the heads up. Seems to be working well..
- Matt Martin
I think for individuals and small businesses this is going to be killer in which data security and device management can be a bit more lenient. I wish just sucks I'm stuck with Exchange already at work.
- Brian Bufalo
@Kenton - Good take on security. Given that this is using Activesync, I think the Google Apps-enabled kill switch is imminent (ActiveSync via Exchange has kill switch features). The fact that the domain's Google Apps admin has to enable sync'ing in the first place is a good start.
- Peter Ghosh
btw, 1 hour in and this feature is nerdtastic!!!!
- Peter Ghosh
Thanks for the tip on enabling it via the Google Apps dashboard; seems to work fine for me now.
- Glen Campbell, esq.
Nice! I didn't know about the activation from within the Admin panel of Apps for Domains, and now it's working great. Thanks Matt & Peter!
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Still no news and/or tricks on how to get the calendar to sync to the Nokia symbian phones?
- Henrik Söderlund
I don't have any options for additional calendars on m.google.com/sync, just the iPhone setup instructions. Is this an Apps bug?
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Tried setting it up on my HTC Mogul and it no work. Had to change the username to cjwelle%gmail.com for the user name to get the domain to show up. But after that no sync of any information. Not ready for primetime in my book.
- Uncle CW™
Setting up Google Sync now. updating my N82 firmware first. hope it wont delete my contacts list like it does for iPhone.
- Sunil Joseph
Wallace, thanks for correcting me. I wasn't able to see my shared calendars, but after your comment I thought about it. My shared cals are from a Google Apps account and our admin likely hasn't enabled it for that one. Thanks!
- Kevin C. Tofel
I've been using the version for BlackBerrys for a couple of months or so, but turned it off the other day as it kept retracting my appointments during syncs leaving me with an empty calendar and missed appointments! Not sure what was happening there, and it's hard to tell if there's a newer release for the BBs that's come out now too.
- Benjamin Watt
Sounds like a good idea but I can't get it set up. Keep getting "exchange account validation failed" but no clues as to what failed. Are there any restrictions on usage outside the US?
- Mark Warren
I use this on my BlackBerry and it works extremely well for me.
- Christopher Howie
from twhirl
I also found a problem here in germany - if you try to sync more than one calendar it said "this device is not supported" - adding ?hl=en to switch to english helped and I could sync all my shared and read only calendars: http://m.google.com/sync?hl=en
- Frank S.
Works perfectly for me. Now I can stop using nuevasync...
- Jorg Jansen
I've used the BlackBerry version for a few months now. It's great!
- Rob Boek
Well, If you are using and depending on /or can't get around another service, e.g. an Exchange server, in your cross sync calendar and contacts mix Google Sync is most likely not going to do much for you. Las time I checked, Google Sync assumes the dominant position and does not let you specify any sync conditions you'd might come to expect from other syncing apps. E.g. syncing contacts to and from your Google account not optional. I'd like to be able to tell Google how and what I'd like to sync, though.
- Vidar Andersen
If apple would simply support CalDav on the iPhone this would be a moot point. I can have iCal attached to Google Calendar and working off-line... but not the calendars on my iPhone. I don't get it...
- Brian Roy
Proof of the pudding for me will be how it handles alarms. If that works well, bye bye MobileMe!
- Chris Hearn
I wonder if using ActiveSync has any implications for Verizon users who have the $30/mo data plan for "Web Mail/Web Browsing", vs the $45/mo plan which is for "Syncing of Calendars/Tasks/Email/Web Browsing"? Could they be doing any packet capture by protocol?
- Jef
works awesome. i've been using nuevasync since i got the phone but was waiting till google did their own. now i'm happily waiting for them to support sync for tasks with.... ?
- tommy payne
from twhirl
NO, it doesn't work great. It has all the same problems with any other Exchange Sync. Your phone is "slaved" to the "exchange" - once that happens - no other contacts, no other calendars (with Google Apps you only get 1 calendar). The limitations of this pretty much out-weigh the up-side.
- Brian Roy
This is very tempting, except just this morning I was thinking that I need to start extracting myself from excessive dependence on the Google. I guess I could use this if I can figure out some other Google service to jettison.
- Erik S
I've been using Neuvasync for the past 9 or 10 months. It's a free Exchange service that interfaces with your Google calendar and contact store. It worked extremely well providing near real-time OTA synch between my iPhone, Outlook (with a Google account) and the web. I've now switched over to Google's Exchange service. Since Google was already hosting my contacts and calendar there was...
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- Troy Forster
from twhirl
I've noticed that if you setup Google Sync with your iPhone and have the OS X Address Book set to sync with Google, it appears the latter no longer happens. While OTA updates seem to work flawlessly between Google Contacts and the iPhone, if you intend to keep the Address Book in sync with the other 2 then something is in need of fixing.
- Scott Jarkoff
Any difference between Exchange and MobileMe push on the iPhone with regard to battery life?
- Chris Hearn
How is this handling fields that Google doesn't have in Gmail, i.e. birthdays? I'm a little hesitant to just sync contacts specifically, because Gmail doesn't have the number of related fields that the iPhone or the Address Book app does.
- Aakar Shroff
its not new though... its existed on the blackberry for a loong time (and has been working quite well for me)... is the "new" just the version for the iPhone or am i missing something?
- simran
Currently Google Sync only supports Contacts for my Nokia N95 Too bad I use GooSync now for my calendar, but it only updates a couple of weeks ahead. Wish Plaxo had 2 way sync with Google Contacts. And that I could use any address book in gmail.
- nooble
Took a while to get this up and running well, but I've decided to forgo access to my work email/calendar to have my Google Calendar on my phone.
- Bill Glover
I have never been a big fan of Google's contacts system. If contact photos (which I use in my iPhone for caller ID) don't get synced they way Outlook does it, I won't bother. Google needs to overhaul the whole UI and feature set of it's contacts system. Right now it is probably the worst of all the main webmail services.
- Rolf Schewe
I have a question for anyone who's used this so far. What happens with conflicts? How does it determine if a contact is the same and which one wins the conflict? Can this be set? It would be nice if the phone wins for phone number conflicts and Google wins for email address conflicts (possibly address, too), but that's a pipe dream, I guess.
- Chieze Okoye
Also, what happens with contact images? I don't want to overwrite the ones already on my phone but it would be nice to have some pulled from GChat for the rest of my contacts that don't have them set already (so I guess I would like phone to win contact image conflicts)
- Chieze Okoye
D'oh! only the main calendar on WinMob! Sucks! Oh well, guess I won't be using it now. Switching to Nuevasync, I guess.
- Chieze Okoye
Keith: can I make a suggestion? Auto create tasks with a filter. I currently send myself emails to bgolub+todo which get auto labeled and starred. Would love to be able to create a task in a similar process.
- Benjamin Golub
Thank, will try it. More suggestions: task completion date recognition in task subject; GooCal integration; See full note on mouseover. Still - Nice to see proprietary task integration in gmail. RTM is good but buggy, so have been wanting this.
- Philip Tomlinson
Very simple.. I hope they does something more accesible
- Leandro Ardissone ⍨
Some recent Chromium builds added many features that improve bookmark management and they'll probably be available in a future Google Chrome update. The most notable new feature is a bookmark manager that lets you find bookmarks, move them to a new folder or easily delete a large number of bookmarks.
- LouCypher
My piano teacher and aikido instructor are both having massive coronaries.
- Tad
Definitely not attractive... it looks awful.
- Bindu Reddy
And, as a social dancer, hope to never see someone like this on the dance floor. Then again, it's way less scary than women in high heels. I learned that lesson painfully a while back ("No, no... not tandem charleston not... aaaaaaaeeeeeeiiiii SPLAT!")
- Adam Lasnik
I'm not into the fru-fru, so ick. Get back to me when women start wearing circuit boards.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
omg, so cute! definitely not for everyday wear, but once in a while you gotta go with something outlandish, just to make sure people are paying attention :)
- Jeanette Bosman
Chrome is probably the most efficient browser I've seen to date. But maybe that's coz I'm not that old to have seen every browser to date. :)
- Imran Hussain
Started Chrome before FF, in fact I don't even have FF open yet.
- Roberto Bonini
i am digging it too. weird thing happened to me this morning though. i was in facebook and only certain major nav links were working. I had to revert to firefox.
- Don Martelli
from twhirl
I haven't launched Firefox since Chrome came out.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I'm using Chrome on 2 of my PCs as my primary browser -- it's faster and feels better. Still using Firefox on my Mac, because, well, it's a Mac. :)
- Thomas Hawk
Running Chrome on the PC's and Omniweb on the Mac.
- Richard Peat
feels like I run into more and more crashes tho..that's kinda a bad thing
- Pascal
I've been using Chrome off and on. It doesn't support NTLM so at work I use FF, because I don't want to login to every site. @Imran, lynx was probably the most efficient, but then it was text only.
- Shawn McCollum
A lot of spin out there that seems to conveniently ignore the fact that this is Chrome 1.0. You think its just going to go away or something? They'll fix the bugs. And Google has quietly encircled Microsoft, and can now slowly choke off their bloodflow. Lots of users (think parents) can now turn on a computer using a non-MS OS, use a Google browser, to read their Google mail, surf the...
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- Indio Apache
from twhirl
Glad Google didn't just release a desktop client, then.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Yeah starting is much faster. only takes a few seconds even with other apps loading, Firefox takes forever. :-( Shame there is no ad-blocking with Chrome, hope that'll come in future versions
- Kol Tregaskes
from twhirl
I had some issue with Flickr that made me flee back to FF. Can't recall what it was.
- B. Hatin
Startup time is only relevant if you actually close your browser once in a while. I can't remember the last time I did that.
- Eric P
why why why name your tech blog LiveCrunch... :(
- Zee.
History is accessible by either right-clicking or hold-left-clicking the back arrow. Took me a bit to find that. Like it so far.
- Andrew Smith
it's now set as my default browser.. even though FF is still better for developing currently
- Stefan Hayden
- love it too. Just miss the bookmarklets and add-ons the fox gives you!
- JA Castillo
It is just so quick to anticipate the website I am typing. It usually gets it after two letters. Fantastic!
- Barak B
I've been using it almost exclusively. Even with some Sharepoint sites I use for work and a fantasy football draft.
- Brian Newman
I no longer really remember the Chrome startup time, because we've not stopped/quit Chrome since it was installed, nor have we had to. I'd have killed/restarted Firefox a couple dozen times (at least) over the same time period, and IE probably a few times, too. Opera...hard to say, but it doesn't matter anyway. ;)
- abacab
I like the feature of 'task manager' for browser, and thats helps keep me running chrome forever, wont have to kill it if some site creats an issue
- Veetrag
from Alert Thingy
Has anyone noticed a lag when loading javascript/ajax call heavy pages? It seems that the javascript/ajax call has to completely finish before the page will show, FF and IE don't lag but chrome does.
- Shawn McCollum
now if it only have a plug-in for friendfeed
- Dave Hodson
+1 Eric... I only "stop" Firefox when I am updating an extension.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
have they said when they will introduce the mac version?
- Johnny Sewell
it has a long way to go but I still enjoy using it. For some odd reason it doesn't like to scroll with my trackpad so I can't use it on my laptop. Certain sites it just won't work with and I've run across a few PNG and font rendering issues. I look forward to seeing how it develops
- Zach Chisholm
I'm down to about 130 now. If someone is an active FriendFeeder, I get a good stream of their info here, so I don't need it in two places (Google Reader and FriendFeed).
- Otto R. Radke
with Friendfeed (and its imaginary friends) I just stopped using an RSS readers. Friendfeed FTW!
- Marcos Marado
686 - 587 in Google Reader, 99 in reBlog. And when I get more time, I'll be going through and subscribing to a bunch more Twitter and FF followers blogs.
- TDavid
343 - I need a "best of the day/week/month" filter, à la Friendfeed
- Jérôme Flipo
I'm subscribed to 106, most of them infrequent programming blogs, but one of them is Robert Scoble's shared item feed. Therefore it seems like a lot more. Scoble is a force multiplier.
- DGentry
Right now I'm at about 60. I've cut back until I can figure out a good way to organize them. Any suggestions?
- Jonathan.Rivera
"Yang Peiyi was replaced by Lin Miaoke who mimed "Ode to the Motherland" as her face was "not suitable" for the Olympics opening ceremony"
- Karen Padham Taylor
"Dr Hamermesh's work shows that ugly people earn below the average income while beautiful people earn more. In Britain, attractive women enjoy a +1% premium. But in Shanghai, the figure was +10%"
- Sanjeev Singh
Lin Miaoke is a very pretty little girl. There's nothing fake about that.
- m13a
god like beaties,,,keso 's right ,we are all Yang Peiyi,我们生活在国家荣誉的包围之中
- qian
I am a chinese, and I hate the fake, especially in children. But this is only one small example. In the whole school, the children are taught by teachers who are doing bad example.
- zgjie
This is a shame...though quite Chinese way..
- WooParadog
Thank you. I switched out for a less religious version of Rick Hoyt's story and asked my wife to send it to me everytime I complain about anything related to fatherhood. Just watched again this morning and brings tears to my eyes and makes me remember there but for fortune go I. The man is a hero. http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Brad Nickel