In other Google news, Google Reader added a nice little feature today for bloggers. You can turn your list of feeds, or any subset you choose to make public, into a blog roll. That will help spread Google Reader technology across the Web, and give Google another data point about blogs and feeds which could become another factor for it to consider in its blog search algorithm. Adding a blog to a public blogroll, after all, is an explicit endorsement from readers rather than from other bloggers (linkers). Of course, if Google did start factoring this into its blog search, it would be pretty easy to game—just create a ton of blogrolls with your blogs on them and start clicking away. Oh well.
Here is one blogroll I made of technology blogs and news feeds:
wow, google maps in gas pumps.smart thinking outside of the box…
Mapquest did not think about this while they ruled internet map’ping for quite sometime before yahoo and goole stepped in. Companies internal structure should supporting innovation, that is where google has the best possible org structure and whereas yahoo and others failed, and you dont see much innovation.
Wow, Duncan AND Erick both writing about Google’s gas pump maps…
great, now there will be super long lines at the pumps while people try to figure out where they are.
And now this google gas pump story is here too? Does everybody have to blog about the same things? Is this how this is going to go? Bloggers blogging bloggers? bloggers who blog bloggers blogging other bloggers?
Can’t you bloggers do a quick Google search to see if the story’s already been tapped?
This idea is a flop. Plus, there’s no new tech here. Nobody wants to wait for some jackass holding up the gas line to dick around with internet. Furthermore, GPS will be in a majority of dashboards –– even the cheapest American ones –– LONG before a majority of gas station owners have managed to scrounge their deposits together to lease these expensive new mezzanines.
@ryan (3)
“great, now there will be super long lines at the pumps while people try to figure out where they are.”
@randy (4)
“This idea is a flop. Plus, there’s no new tech here. Nobody wants to wait for some jackass holding up the gas line to dick around with internet. Furthermore, GPS will be in a majority of dashboards –– even the cheapest American ones –– LONG before a majority of gas station owners have managed to scrounge their deposits together to lease these expensive new mezzanines.”
I agree. The thing about pumping gas is that you need to get in and get out — nobody SHOULD want to spend an extra five to ten minutes playing with Google Maps just because they can. Instead of targeting the gas pump, why not turn the “convenience store” into an internet cafe?
People are so quick to slob the Google knob that this insignifncant announcement will send their stock price up another $10. Here’s a hint Google, the other search engines are coming for you so Android and OpenSocial better pay off.
Bloglines has had this feature since 2005.
So I just tried to add the Google Reader blogroll code as a widget on my Wordpress-powered blog (click name for link).
First off, I tried setting up the code in a Text widget which doesn’t play well with javascript. Secondly, my widget box seems a bit borked. But hey, this was fast and dirty. I can only hope the Wordpress gods come up with a clean widget in the near future.
This is a great feature they added to Google Reader and has just made me drop the Feedreader app and go Google full time.
like I can’t believe I’m not on your blog roll
…. and stuff.
Why are you guys all talking about pumps BTW? This is about GReader blog rolls? Weird.
@Chris (9)
Cause the n00b double posted from a previous post. Looks like he pulled a ninja edit without any explanation.
I agree – too much info stories about blogging bloggers and blog stuff. Blogging is boring anyway
I agree. It is all about blogging these days and social bookmarking…booooring.
This may be offf topic – but why not make more news about gadgets that save energy? Like, VIA’s C7 CPU only use 1 watt power in average and has similar power as a Celeron CPU. This is not interesting for gamers but for all those hundreds of millons of computers used for office use (Word/Excel etc) then they are idle most of the day and such CPU power is plenty.
A C7 based notebook would draw less than 25 watt even with screen turned on – compare that with 200 watt for a normal desktop computer. Then multiply that 175 watt savings with 100 million computers. Now, THAT is worth wrriting and reading about. Unfortunately, it is not easy to buy a decent notebook with C7 cpu…
Erick – no love for a fellow ny’er?
Ninja edits, gotta love em, they make reading comments fun.
The NOOb had a late night writing posts for you, my beloved TechCrunch readers. Sorry for the double post. Yes, I took out the part about the GMap gas pumps because we had already covered it.
Allen, for you anything. But the blogroll is now closed to new additions. Who knew it would be so popular?
Thanks Erick!
Ding Dong – Please step in and stand clear of the closing doors – this blogroll is moving!