After our big launch of the new look and feel, the Reader team took a breather and worked on tying up loose ends (don’t worry, we also took some time off). We’ve just pushed a new release that includes the following set of fixes and tweaks:
Improveme…
We thought it would be fun to have some guest bloggers write about how they use Reader. Ann Verbin is a friend of the Reader team, and a pretty avid user. In this post, she writes about how Reader helps her find and organize recipes. If you use Reader …
It’s a little known fact that Reader and iGoogle are siblings. They share some parents (hi Steve!). They’ve both been growing up fast since their respective launches in mid-2005. They even sat next to each other for a while.
When we heard about the i…
Our friends on the Blogger team just launched Following. Blogger users can now “follow” blogs they like, giving them an easy way keep up with their favorite blogs, and allowing authors to see who their readership is.
Better yet, followed blogs also sh…
T.V. Raman and Charles Chen, who have helped out with accessibility in Reader in the past, have not rested on their laurels and have another feature to announce:
I’ve long maintained that CSS is one of the most well-kept (and consequently under-exploi…
photo by groundzero (CC-licensed)Not every Reader release is filled with exciting new features, but we’d like to think that every little improvement counts. While we’ve been working on some longer-term things, we’ve also had time to make some smaller c…
Google Reader Keyboard (inspiration)Google Reader is well-known for its keyboard shortcuts. When going through thousands of blog posts, news items, photos, etc. a day, it’s important to do this as efficiently as possible. Many users find that using th…
As an engineer on Google Reader, it’s always great to hear from users, especially when it’s about how Reader has helped out. I was very happy when the team received this email from Gary Patino:
I was having a hard time finding the right job here in Ho…
There’s been a lot of discussion this weekend about the subscriber counts that have recently appeared in Reader’s search results. Leaderboards have been drawn up, numbers are being compared and in some cases there’s confusion as to how these numbers co…
Here’s a search box:
Doesn’t seem all that special, does it? Most Google sites have it. But let’s look at where it is:
That’s right, search is finally in Google Reader. Now you can find that that apricot recipe you came across a few months ago an…
Sometimes we come across Reader-related things that are interesting enough that we’d like to post about them on our blog, but at the same time too small to base
a whole post around. Enough of these tidbits have piled up to build a whole
meal, so we tho…
Earlier this year, I acquired a Nintendo Wii. As I was recovering from Wii elbow, I began to explore the capabilities of the Opera-based Internet Channel. It occurred that Reader may be a lot of fun on the Wii, especially with many photo and video feed…
There are many ways to get your Reader fix. You can use our full interface. You can use your cellphone. You can even “Next” your way across the web with our bookmarklet. But one of the more popular ways to check your reading list is with our Personaliz…
Reader has always been about sharing your favorite items. One of the more fun things you can do with them is put them on your blog. That way your readers can see what you’ve been finding interesting, even if you don’t have the time to do full posts.
U…
I’ve always been a big fan of charts, tables and other ways of analyzing and visualizing data. On my own blog I will often plot things just to get a handle on them. Even here I’ve posted some analyses that I’ve done of the data that the Reader team has…