Google Reader Adds Networking
July 18, 2009 by Anna Farmery
Filed under Social Media
The Google Reader Blog has an interesting feature addition to Google Reader. Google Reader in many ways is the lifeblood of my web experience. The fact that I can
- Catch up on latest news
- Keep an eye on latest trends
- Be inspired by great web thinkers
- Gain insights into web research
What would I do without my morning fix of RSS feeds with Google Reader?
But now Google Reader has added “four improvements to give you more sharing control and help you easily find other people’s publicly shared items within Reader.”
- You can now “find people with public shared items and subscribe to their shared items with one click” using the new people search feature.
- Also if publis sharing is not what you want then ” allow you to share items with a specific group or with multiple groups.”
- To encourage people to connect with you, you can “visit your Google profile to know what you’re interested in on Reader, add a link to your shared items to your Google profile.”
- FInally “the ability to see and add comments to shared items is still restricted only to people you have in a sharing group (i.e. “Friends”). So, although your shared items might be public (and publicly discoverable), only people you have added to a sharing group will be able to comment on them.”
Interesting new features if you want to use Google to expand your social networking capabilities.
