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Google Expands Web Elements, Adds Reader, Translate
Google is trying to make it ever easier to take little pieces from Google and bring them to your Web site. As the company embraced YouTube embeds following their 2006 acquisition, which have helped the video site become far and away the leader on the...
The Story of Google\'s Closure: Advanced JavaScript Tools
On Thursday, Google caught the eyes of Web developers around the world with the company's move to open source its Closure JavaScript compiler, library and template system to the Web community - the very same tools that power popular applications, inc...
The Story of Google\'s Closure: Advanced JavaScript Tools
On Thursday, Google caught the eyes of Web developers around the world with the company's move to open source its Closure JavaScript compiler, library and template system to the Web community - the very same tools that power popular applications, inc...
Why I Wouldn\'t Accept $25k To Stop Using Google Reader
Cross-Posted on my Ecademy Blog and Shared HereInformation is power - and the ability to take in more information more quickly than anybody else, all in one place, is an incredible power. The Web has been built to enable all of us to share and distri...
Can Twitter Replace RSS for Sharing the Best of the Web?
On Monday, early adopter and Web provocateur Robert Scoble suggested that my use of Google Reader to share the best of the tech Web each day was antiquated. In fact, he called Reader "a dead product" compared to Twitter, which he believes will grow i...
Why And Where We Share: Distributing Quality With Impact, Intent
Regardless of whether you first came in contact with my content here, or through other streams, you know that the vast majority of my online life has to do with the creation, filtering and distribution of information. In addition to authoring new sto...
Feedly Explore Highlights Recommended Blogs, Reader Activity
For the past year, Feedly has been working to improve its overlay for Google Reader, presenting a more visual approach to feeds in a magazine-like format, essentially becoming a personalized start page, powered by RSS. As Google Reader has evolved, a...
My Top Ten Favorite Google Products
As Google has grown as a company, its reach has extended well beyond its initial foundation as a massive search index. The company now represents many things - including a mobile handset platform, a Web browser, Web-based e-mail, a social network, an...
Automated Tweets Don't Always Mean Less Genuine Tweets
With the introduction of an updated terms of service last week, Twitter once again had people buzzing about what was accepted behavior on the fast-growing microblogging site, and what crossed the line. In one of the site's frequent list-based article...
Real-time Google Reader Shares to Twitter - There's An App for That.
For many people, Twitter is as much about the links you share as it is about the discussions that ensue in the microblogging community. For that reason, tools that automate posts to Twitter via RSS are among the most popular Twitter clients in use. W...
Brizzly's Sharp Twitter Web Interface Hides Loads of Unique Features
As Twitter becomes infrastructure, and its features become well-known, it has become a challenge for third-party clients, like TweetDeck, Seesmic, HootSuite, Tweetie and others to separate from the pack. But a recent entrant, Brizzly, has a serious ...
Feedly's RSS-Powered Start Page Includes Reader Conversations
As I've mentioned a few times on the blog, the conversations in Google Reader are playing an ever-increasing role in my information consumption workflow. The RSS reader's enhancements have not been lost on the makers of Feedly, who have been working ...
Conversations on Google Reader Shared Items Are Booming
For the world's leading RSS reader, integrating social functions hasn't always been drop-dead simple and easy. With each new addition, be it the recent "Send To" features, the addition of "likes", or the ability to selectively enable friends to make ...
Google Reader Wants Me to Send My Shares Everywhere
My favorite RSS feed reader and jumping off point for information discovery and sharing, Google Reader, has caught the social bug. Fresh off their big push last month that saw a spike in the number of people exchanging shared items and finding contac...
PubSubHubbub Hits the Gas On My Google Reader Link Blog
In terms of sheer volume, there is little I do more online every day than share Google Reader items. According to my Google Reader trends statistics, I have shared 743 separate items in the last 30 days, at a rate of just under 25 a day, including we...
RSS Is Doing Great, But Stand-Alone Feed Readers Are Collapsing
Three years in technology can be an eternity. I marvel that just over three years ago, I was telling you that "RSS Is a Demanding Mistress", showing off a screen capture of my NetNewswire application, powered by Newsgator. At the time, as I complaine...
My6sense: An iPhone App for Feeds, With Digital Intuition Built-in
The concept of information overload has been much-debated. Practically everyone, with myself being a rare exception, says they are overwhelmed by the amount of data that is flowing their way. Decisions need to be made in terms of what to read, where ...
Google Reader "Likes" Find the More Shy Blog Readers
Since Google Reader introduced new social aspects to their popular RSS reader last Wednesday, there have been a number of reactions to the additions - most specifically around their introduction of a "like" feature, enabling readers to essentially gi...
My AllTop On My iPhone: A New Way to Consume RSS?
In March, when Guy Kawasaki's AllTop service introduced the ability to customize pages to include personalized feeds, I finally dove in and checked it out after years of ignoring the product. This weekend, Guy followed up and let me know that the tea...
PubSubHubbub: Real-Time Feeds and Real-Time Feedback Too?
Getting data from one place to another can never be too fast. Just a year or two ago, the speed of RSS was considered excellent, but now, with latency of RSS feeds getting to destinations such as Google Reader or other networks ranging from minutes t...
Google Reader Improves Link Blog Discovery, Security, Adds Likes
Google Reader, for more than two years, has played a central role both in terms of how I discover information and how I distribute information. It is through Google Reader that I get updated from hundreds of blogs and news sources, and through a shar...
Lazyfeed Poised to Debut Real-time Personalized Blog Search
The overwhelming majority of attention and innovation in the world of real-time search in the last year has been paid to microblogging, with Twitter and FriendFeed making most of the headlines. But a new tool, set to debut in the next two days, calle...
Gmail Should be the Hub of Your Company's Social Media Strategy
Back in March, I talked about how you can cleanly separate personal and work social media personalities, and suggested a list of tools that I use to make sure I don't blur the two. But as I talk with companies getting started in the big world of soci...
Are Authors or Publications Impacting How You Consume the News?
Over the last few years, participating in the tech blogosphere and meeting many of the people who create and report on the tech news we read every day has made the entire process of consuming the news more than simply a passive exercise. While in 200...
