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Re: Google Reader, the next “Digg?”

Chris Lang — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:12:43 -0000

Well, you were right! Google Reader is the new social bookmarking engine and it is Google Reader that is the gas.

Google Reader adds a friends list, many social features like bookmarking, RSS feed item sharing, comments on blog posts and a blog recommendation engine based on your friends feeds and what you have in Google Reader

http://www.keywebdata.com/?...

This is the first time I have ever beat everybody to breaking news, even TechCrunch.

My blog is banned by Digg, but if you write the article we will take it front page for you on Digg. Just email me so I can link to your article, you had the vision in 2006.

Cheers = Chris Lang

Re: Google Reader, the next “Digg?”

Social Bookmarking List — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 01:30:47 -0000

Still after all this time Google Reader is still going strong. Yet I still spend much of my time at Digg and still visit my favorite sites.

Re: Google Reader, the next “Digg?”

jack folla — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 20:35:40 -0000

Insted of beat digg or netscape, they could just add another layer on web2.0 as this www.skimoff.com aggregator tries to do.

Re: Google Reader, the next “Digg?”

Rakesh — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 06:23:47 -0000

Google Reader is the best web-based reader out there - no question. But I really wish the Reader guys would be snappier about fixing bugs. For instance, the "In expanded view, mark items as read when you scroll past them." checkbox under "Scroll options" hasn't worked for many months now and nobody seems to care. I un-check it and it still insists on marking posts as read on scrolling. Gngngngngn...

I am not a "neat" reader and keep reading random posts in multiple iterations - pwease oh pwease make it work...

Re: Google Reader, the next “Digg?”

paul — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 17:50:14 -0000

Google Reader seems to be totally down, and in standard Google fashion we're getting no response as to why.

Re: Google Reader, the next “Digg?”

Joseph Thornley — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 13:59:50 -0000

"I sure would like to find other Google Reader users who share items similar to the ones I share with people. I’d love to combine those two feeds..."
Robert, I switched to Google Reader after you raved about it during the blogger dinner in Chicago before the Ragan Conference.

I'm also sharing my link blog at http://www.google.ca/reader.... Please feel free to take a look at it and use it, if it meets your purpose.

Re: Google Reader, the next “Digg?”

Bangalore Bytes — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 01:48:03 -0000

Surely someone can write a script where we all can submit our Google shared feeds list/rss feed and then use that data to come up with a functional Digg/Reddit prototype?

Until Google does the same of course...

Re: Google Reader, the next “Digg?”

Amit Doshi — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 08:50:55 -0000

Thanks for the link...it helps, but not enough. Actually since I cant sort by date, its really nowhere close to enough. Thanks anyway though.

Re: Google Reader, the next “Digg?”

Colin — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 01:58:12 -0000

I was already sold on Google Reader when I accessed it through my Blackberry. Then I was overwhelmed. Read in Blackberry and instantly updated on the web version. But the key is that the BB version is customised by Google with things like "keep unread".
Re the Digg thing ... the "share this" function has exponential possibilities. You have to try it, live with it to see that.

Re: Google Reader, the next “Digg?”

RBA — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 23:18:10 -0000

Robert, that commenter in Steve's blog would be me :-)

I'm not wondering *how* Google is going to dominate the news aggregator business.

I'm saying that for something like Google Reader to put down a site like Digg it would first have to dominate the news aggregator space, because as long as there are masses of people who don't use that reader/service, they will resort to other services that give them what Digg dives them today, without giving up their own news reader. And it certainly doesn't take just a few thousand people to take over that space.

You only need a few thousand people to get a social thing going, but you certainly need a lot more to turn it into the "next Digg" or whatever IMHO.

Re: Google Reader, the next “Digg?”

Luke — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:02:26 -0000

Yet one more example of
"Google: By geeks, for geeks."

Re: Google Reader, the next “Digg?”

dan mcweeney — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 14:33:46 -0000

If Google would really start to look at their reader stats they could use that to help search blogs/everything better. The the more people who subscribe to your blog and who actually click links on your blog, the more useful your posts are and links probably are. If Google started to give different weighting to these referring links based upon actual human click throughs they could tell what was a good link and what was a bad link ( Wizard of Oz flashback ) even more accurately. Its basically a way for Google to validate their index using real live humans.
-d

Re: Google Reader, the next “Digg?”

Blog Boke — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 14:21:16 -0000

Hi Robert. I'm sorry but I don't Digg Google Reader.

Maybe it's just me, but I don't like it or any other web-based aggregator. It is way too slow for my liking (yes, I have broadband).

Admittedly I subscribe to thousands of filtered feeds, but I don't have the patience (or the time) to wait for it to load.

I understand that someone like you who is on the road a lot has need for a web reader (have OPML will travel). But as for the rest of us I don't see it as a viable option to replace desktop aggregators that can be much faster and more feature rich.

The only real advantage that I can see web-based aggregators might have is the social aspect. The other advantage would also be for retaining a history of my feeds on Google's servers instead eating up dwindling space on my hard drive.

Nevertheless, until they can improve performance issues I will stick with my free copy of "GreatNews" which is super fast and has all of the important features that I need.

I hope that you and your family had a terrific Christmas.

Re: Google Reader, the next “Digg?”

Matt Cutts — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 13:26:28 -0000

francine, see http://googlereader.blogspo...
for how to get your shared items into a linkroll.

http://persistent.info/arch...
also talks about it a little more (Mihai is an engineer on Google Reader), and his front page shows an example of it.

Re: Google Reader, the next “Digg?”

Teresa Valdez Klein — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 13:11:41 -0000

I burned my shared items feed and then used the attached widget to display my six most recent shared headlines in the sidebar of my blog. I think the sharing angle is my favorite feature of Google reader.

Re: Google Reader, the next “Digg?”

Donal — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 13:06:22 -0000

Checked. It does work!

Re: Google Reader, the next “Digg?”

Donal — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 12:31:38 -0000

Robert,

I agree with you that it would be useful for readers to download an OPML file.

However, in my opinion, a bigger drawback with many feedreaders is their inability to distinguish categories from feeds when importing data from an existing OPML file. Some assume the category is a feed, others simply ignore categories.

I haven't used Google Reader to date so I was wondering how good it is at separating categories from feeds when importing existing OPML. I'll test it out and see. If it can't do it, does any other feedreader get it right?

Re: Google Reader, the next “Digg?”

Michael Markman (Mickeleh) — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 12:17:40 -0000

You wore me down about seventeen plugs ago. Google reader is the shizzle. Flashback: early days of the Web... remember all the sites that were mainly lists of links to other sites? Google Reader is that again. "Here's stuff I like."

But that's not enough. When I tell people about it, they often throw up their hands and say, "enough internet already. I already have more ways to find stuff than I can deal with. I have no apetitite no cycles left to ride up another learning curve. Even a shallow one."

There are some meta-lessons here: Google Reader is an acquired taste. The sharing and community features are too well hidden for an explosive viral effect.

Biggest obstacle to wide adoption of Google Reader: it solves a problem that either don't have or already have a solution for.

No worries. They'll keep gaining. They have time. Cause, after all, it is the shizzle.

Re: Google Reader, the next “Digg?”

Thomas Fitzgerald — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 11:59:45 -0000

Here's hoping if it does become the next digg, the rediculous and frequently offensive commentary that pervades digg can be oprevented somehow.

Re: Google Reader, the next “Digg?”

ben — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 11:49:58 -0000

Try out feedable.com. It's in beta and is easier to use that Google Reader.

Re: Google Reader, the next “Digg?”

Louis Gray — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 11:31:20 -0000

I've grown so accustomed to using Google Reader to navigate feeds that I find myself trying to hit "J" to go to the next unread comment on blogs or the next article on news sites.

I don't know if it will replace Digg. The tools have different uses.

Digg itself is morphing to the point it's not very useful, and for me at least, I never relied on Google News' front page for anything. Everyone has their own preference, and I just don't expect those properties to run my viewing habits.

Re: Google Reader, the next “Digg?”

Doug — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 11:15:21 -0000

Digg and reddit are far and away better than Google reader. Full stop. No competition. Google came into this market far too late.

Re: Google Reader, the next “Digg?”

Brian Sullivan — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 11:04:36 -0000

I switched too (after one too many crashes with Intravnews and Outlook).

But I agree with Skip -- there definitely is an issue with growing browser memory size on IE7 anyway -- I am not sure if it can be classed as a "leak" as closing the browser releases the memory and it is not clear if this is a reader issue or an IE7 issue but regardless it is a pain in the butt.

Re: Google Reader, the next “Digg?”

Tamar Weinberg — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 10:59:48 -0000

It would be nice for Google Reader users to have a more unique URL rather than one with a random 15 digit number attached to it.

I still haven't converted to Google Reader yet. In due time...

Re: Google Reader, the next “Digg?”

David Morris — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 10:47:58 -0000

I recently switched to Newsgator Online from JetBrains Omea Reader. This was because Omea Reader had way too much functionality that I didn't need. If Google Reader were to compete against other products, it would be the likes of Newsgator Online and downloadable clients. Digg is a different sort of service, so they can't really compete against each other.