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By: Chris Lang

Chris Lang — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:25:15 +0000

What is way more powerful is the Google blog recommendation engine.

After you add friends using their Gmail address Google will recommend other blogs by what your friends list is subscribing to in their Google Reader.

This is what Google has to say about it:

“Your recommendations list is automatically generated. It takes into account the feeds you’re already subscribed to, as well as information from your Web History, including your location. Aggregated across many users, this information can indicate which feeds are popular among people with similar interests. For instance, if a lot of people subscribe to feeds about both peanut butter and jelly, and you only subscribe to feeds about peanut butter, Reader will recommend that you try some jelly. This process is completely automated and anonymous; your personal information will be protected in accordance with our privacy policy.”

Once you have friends enrolled in Google Reader, click the “home” link at the top of the left hand navigation.

This will take you to the top level page and you will see blogs recommended to you by Google Reader.

I took Google Reader through the paces for hours and took screen shots of everything along the way, including the recommendation engine.

You can see the blog post here:

http://www.keyw...data.com/?p=136

In case the URL is stripped out because of comment spammers, you can see the 4000 word article and all the screen shots on my blog at the link above.

Also, all the links that are created by Google Reader when you share items and your friends share items are fully followable by Google.

This seems much harder to game than say Digg and seems to be a very viable Google social bookmarking engine.

By: Zach

Zach — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:51:42 +0000

Feedly is the alternative that i use for this. It has been a little buggy as of late but still works great.

By: Todd

Todd — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:03:39 +0000

feedly….feedly

By: Grant Cerny

Grant Cerny — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:37:08 +0000

When I loaded Google Reader today there was a flyout saying “add friends” and it sat right on top of the content and there was no way to X out of it. I literally HAD to engage with the friending in order to make it go away. That’s not cool.

By: Gebadia Smith

Gebadia Smith — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:16:17 +0000

I got into a heated argument with a guy I am helping out with a website he is building. I said people wanted control of their data, no matter what type of data it is. That we have different trust levels of those in our lives. What we let our best friends see is not always what we would want out parents seeing.

He told me to prove it. I said Facebook, Google, Yahoo are all developing features focused on giving more control to the user. He wanted proof. Wanted me to do a survey. I said it was common sense.

Am I crazy? People wanting control over there content?

By: Nara

Nara — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:24:05 +0000

Ravish, do you work in marketing or PR for Genwi?

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By: Ravish

Ravish — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:37:55 +0000

I am an avid user of RSS readers and recently I moved to Genwi.

Genwi (http://genwi.com) has/had granular sharing with friends and filtering beyond what Google Reader does (with better UI) . The share also includes a note and a way to respond with private messages.

Further Genwi sharing is not a public post diminishing the privacy and value of the original post.

By: Wells

Wells — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:36:16 +0000

Holy crap. Can’t I just have _one freaking utility on the web_ that doesn’t have friend crap? I want to once again be isolated, to be alone, to peruse my RSS feeds without a thought to the cold and uncaring world outside!

By: Sherwin Techico

Sherwin Techico — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:34:56 +0000

Nice feature. Now, if the Reader can give us more control of our “folders”/tags that’ll be great =)

By: David Damore

David Damore — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:34:45 +0000

Seems like a nice development. If more needs to be done, people need to send a clear message to Google.

By: Christian Cantrell

Christian Cantrell — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:26:35 +0000

If you want to share posts, I recommend Apprise (www.apprisereader.com). Disclaimer: I’m one of the devs.

Christian