Plastic Logic has launched a new electronic newspaper reader similar to Amazon’s Kindle, but it’s about the size of a regular piece of copy paper. Like the Kindle, this reader utilizes E-Ink’s black and white display technology.
Google Reader Advancing On Bloglines
No changes in ranking seem imminent – Google Reader was actually closer to catching Bloglines ten months ago than it is now. Still, new Hitwise data confirms that these are the top two RSS readers, and in a 12-month comparison, Google’s service is gaining ground.
Google Salutes iPhone Users With New Reader Interface
Although the uninitiated might imagine that iPhone users only use their devices to listen to music and surf social networks, Google knows they can be quite literate, too. And a new version of Reader plays up to this characteristic.
Google Acknowledges Reader Sharing Complaints
Even though Google has seen the feedback in the Reader support group, and probably read a blog post or three, they are dodging the obvious solution to the question of sharing items.
Google Reader Becomes Holiday Snitch
Google’s orchestrating its own Facebook-Beacon-esque fiasco with its latest addition to Google Reader. Users are miffed (to put it lightly) that their shared feeds were suddenly broadcast to anybody they’d had a conversation with via Google Talk or Gmail chat.
Read This: Google Reader Shares Your Stuff
Users of Google Reader now find themselves sharing items with friends through the chat feature in Gmail, aka Google Talk.
Cool Little Google Reader Feature
This is a cool “little” feature in the latest version of Google Reader. if you subscribe to multiple people’s Shared Items’ blogs (I call that a link blog) it won’t send you duplicate items anymore, but will show you how many people actually linked to it. That’s a KILLER feature. But, what’s next?
Google Reader Taps Power Of Blogsearch
New features from Google Reader include a process that recommends blogs potentially of interest to the user, based on subscribed feeds and one’s Web History.
Social Suggestions for Google Reader
I know Google’s been trying to get more involved in the social game, but here are a few suggestions on how they can make the integration a little more seamless, and I’m totally name dropping Mihai Parparita so he catches this one ego surfing.
Currently when you mail yourself something you get this at the bottom of the email
Amazon Reader Opinions
Seth Godin: “You won’t find me on Amazon’s new book reader.”
Rex Hammock: “I’d rather have an iPod Touchbook.”
Mathew Ingram: WTF?
Jeremy Toeman: It will fail.