Google has released two new features for its RSS reading product, Recommendations and Drag-and-Drop.
The Discovery recommendation feature suggests new sites a user may wish to read based on current subscriptions and (interestingly) browsing history. Google has previously offered feed bundles based on subjects, but this is the first time it has offered customized recommendations in this way.
The drag-and-drop functionality allows users to re-order or move subscribed feeds within a folder or to another folder. This style of functionality isn’t unique, and as Google itself points out, RSS readers such as Bloglines and NewsGator already provide drag-and-drop functionality.
Google thanks a number of interns and ex-interns for the new features, a nice thing to do.
As a Google Reader user I know I’m certainly going to use the drag-and-drop functionality, and I’m even looking at some of the suggested feeds as well, but I’ve got to ask: how is it that we can get drag-and-drop in Reader and not Gmail? Surely Gmail could do with this functionality. Maybe the Gmail team needs some interns as well 
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Good stuff, though non-English interface isn’t as pretty yet.. /ac.
And regarding drag-n-drop in Gmail, certainly much wanted.. in fact if Gmail wants to be a replacement of the Outlook web access, it just has to enable drag-n-drop for Gmail.. there’s a lot of user experience dependencies on outlook’s drag&drop functionality (and Folders as well), particularly in the secretarial sector.. right now, cannot even sort by sender name in Gmail — presumably the same result could be obtainable via search in gmail, but really not as handy.. /ac.
Duncan,
Only 20 or so feeds? Come on buddy, scoblize that reader!
Sean
Oh NM i see the PVRS one, that stand for pervs?
Sounds pretty cool!, but I would prefer Ajax editing functions on Bloglines, cause feeds with Drag and Drop is a much better option than to actually to to the oogle’s options screen. There is no doubt, adding feeds in Google is easier - you don’t need to specify the exact URL, because they appear to be leveraging their search engine to get the feed. But I prefer folders over tags, and I hate river-of-news aggregation.
And yes btw i just noticed that Bloglines have been working very hard on their reader. In just past few days they added more Ajaxiness.
Well for me that works, cause i dont like flashy stuff but favour portability.
Parul
http://www.bhopu.com
They launch product too quickly and cloning digg. This kills small business… They have be careful with stock market. Small businesses could lose their jobs, ad revenue could be jeopardy.
You only have few good entrepreneurs. It’s not like 1980 the rise of apple, Microsoft, Nintendo, oracle, ibm, hp, etc….
You have very few young entrepreneurs. Many of them are scare to come out closet. They saw 9/11 image. They couldn’t release superior product. Lot of them wrote GPL.
Sean
PVRs: personal video recorders
and the view was my unread (indeed it was 20 unread in the Apple folder), not my all view. Trust me, there’s a lot more than 20 feeds there
You need to drag Google to the trash and drop it in! lol
http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com
Ex-Intern == extern.
Google Reader rocks.
Vienna reader rocks
Stop giving Google all your data, n00bs
Wow I just spent a good part of the day re-organizing my whole reader list and making it neat and organized and now they update it…… great…… thanks
An innovation a month keeps the clones away.
Rather at Bay.
http://tekno-world.blogspot.com
These are welcome but more is needed. Drag an drop is too slow. If you drag an drop on bloglines it more responsive. They need to fix AJAX response, which is quite slow.
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innovation?? Bloglines has had this as well as another much smaller rss startup that i’m not allowed to talk about at this website
… but i assure you, google is indeed the johnny come lately with the drag and drop….
Nice, one more reason to use Google Reader
Fire Duncan!!!!
I like the idea of recommending feeds but it doesnt appear to be very “smart”. On my list of recommended feeds are 5 sites that I’ve already subscribed to via other feeds. Oh well.