July 30th, 2009 | by Brian Shih | published in Google Reader
A little while back, our friends over at NewsGator told us that lots of people who use their client RSS readers like FeedDemon and NetNewsWire had been asking for the ability to synchronize with Google Reader, since maintaining two separate subscriptio…
July 23rd, 2009 | by Mihai Parparita | published in Google Reader
Reader’s mobile interface for smartphones (iPhones, Android-based devices, and the Palm Pre) is a handy way to keep up with your subscriptions on the go. We realized that we’ve never officially talked about the settings page for the mobile interface, s…
July 15th, 2009 | by Jenna Bilotta | published in Google Reader
When we first started improving our sharing features, our goal was to make sharing as simple and flexible as the rest of Reader. Today, we’re pleased to announce that we’ve made four improvements to give you more sharing control and help you easily fin…
May 26th, 2009 | by Brian Shih | published in Google Reader
The Reader team is happy to announce that another 20% project has come to fruition: a Reader Google Desktop gadget! Post by 20% volunteer and Google Desktop expert, James Yum.
Wherever there are gadgets, RSS feed readers are never lacking, and Google …
May 21st, 2009 | by Brad Hawkes | published in Google Reader
Have you ever had a friend you just knew would love your three favorite blogs about education policy? Do you know all the best sources for celebrity gossip? Or maybe a friend who knows where to get the best baseball commentary? If you’ve ever wanted…
May 19th, 2009 | by Mihai Parparita | published in Google Reader
The Google Reader team has just finished releasing a new version of Reader with a bunch of small changes and tweaks that we thought you’d like to know about.
If you’ve added enough friends in Reader that you’re feeling overwhelmed, we’re here to help….
May 4th, 2009 | by Nick | published in Google Reader
About two months ago we enabled commenting on your friends’ shared items. Today, we’re happy to introduce some changes to how commenting works, including the ability to start sharing with any of the people who comment on your friends’ shared items.
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March 11th, 2009 | by Jenna Bilotta | published in Google Reader
One of the things that we love best about Reader is the ability to easily share interesting items with your friends. In fact, we like it so much that we’ve been adding bunches of new sharing features over the last year including choosing friends to sha…
March 7th, 2009 | by Brian Shih | published in Google Reader
It’s about that time of year again! If you’re heading down to Austin, Texas for South by Southwest, we hope you can join us and our friends from Blogger for a little party. Come, drink, and meet the fine folks behind Google Reader. We may even have a…
January 30th, 2009 | by Mihai Parparita | published in Google Reader
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…
January 8th, 2009 | by Nick | published in Google Reader
Have you ever had a friend or family member who you know would love using Google Reader? Have you ever had trouble explaining to that same friend or family member just how using Reader could make their lives easier (and more fun)? We sure have, so if y…
December 18th, 2008 | by Brian Shih | published in Google Reader
As 2008 draws to a close, we’d like to leave you with a little gift. And since we know the one thing everyone wants is more stuff to read (don’t forget you can hide unread counts!), we’ve got just the thing.
You may have noticed that we added a little…
December 4th, 2008 | by Jenna Bilotta | published in Google Reader
On the Reader team, we know that the old adage “change is good” isn’t always true. Sometimes, change is just change. In this case, we hope that these decisions both improve your Reader experience today, and pave the way for additional improvements dow…
November 10th, 2008 | by Chrix Finne | published in Google Reader
The Reader team is happy to announce that another 20% project has come to fruition: automatic translation in Reader! Post by 20% volunteer and glottology expert, Brett Bavar.
Believe it or not, the web truly is world-wide. That means there is a lot o…
November 6th, 2008 | by Mihai Parparita | published in Google Reader
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 …