Google Reader Play: Completely Useless And Won’t Last, But It Sure Is Pretty

Google is continuing its recent uptick in new features for Google Reader with Google Reader Play, a visual reading tool for feeds. The easiest way to describe Play is to compare it to a slide show which ... continue

Google Buzz: the newest scraper on the block

Technically Buzz isn't a scraper in the truest sense of the word, however the way that Buzz presents our blog posts is identical to all those scrapers sites that the tech blogosphere goes ape-shit over. Now, it ... continue

Google Reader adds FriendFeed style commenting, and why it could be bad

Google has upgraded the sharing feature in Google Reader to allow for multiple comments on shared items. The immediate difference for Google Reader users is the addition of a comment option at the bottom of each shared item. ... continue

Observations from a Google Reader Spring Clean

Feedreaders are for many working in blogging, or following the social media/ web 2.0 space a lifeline into keeping up with the latest news. And yet for many, a feedreader can be a beast that consumes time ... continue

Google messes with GReader: The new Google is soft and feminine

Google has launched a redesigned Google Reader (GReader) including new looks and features. Collapsible navigation is now offered in the sidebar so users can now maximize or minimize all controls. Friend sharing gets an improved look in, with ... continue

Google Reader now offers built in feed translations

Google's feedreading service Google Reader is now offering built in feed translations. The new feature comes from a Google 20% project and is as easy to use as subscribing to a feed in any language, then from the ... continue

Google launches another content play: political news aggregator

Google has announced the launch of Power Readers in Politics, a political news aggregation site where journalists and political campaigns share stores via Google Reader. Included in the aggregation mix along with both the McCain and Obama campaigns ... continue

First look at the new version of Genwi: Social RSS

Social RSS aggregator service Genwi will relaunch Tuesday with a range of new features. My walkthrough of the new service above. At its core, Genwi is a RSS Reader. Users subscribe to feeds, creating a personal "wire." Feeds ... continue

Feedly: My Yahoo 2.0

Feedly is a new Firefox extension (it also works in Flock) that has received a lot of buzz over the last 24 hours among the first adopter set. The plugin turns services such as Google Reader into ... continue

Turn FriendFeed Into Your Start Page With These Greasemonkey Scripts

When I wrote my FriendFeed wishlist May 29 my number one wish was for FriendFeed to support custom tabs. This isn't happening yet, and even if it did it would likely be for content currently supported by ... continue