October 30th, 2008 | by Mike Knapp | published in Google Reader
We are all passionate feed readers on the Google Reader team. For us, working on Reader is a dream job. Why? Because we have the perfect excuse when we’re caught browsing feeds at work!
For a bit of fun, and to show you what we like reading, we’ve put…
October 28th, 2008 | by dolapo | published in Google Reader
When we launched the Trends page last year, we wanted to visualize how we consumed data in Google Reader. One of the more interesting sections of the Trends page is the chart that shows items read by time. Spikes in the chart are a cool way of noticing…
October 24th, 2008 | by Brian Shih | published in Google Reader
We’ve always used Reader to keep up to date on news and current events and today it just got a little easier: The Guardian just moved all of their RSS feeds from partial to full-text. They are the first major newspaper in the world to do so, and this i…
October 16th, 2008 | by Mihai Parparita | published in Google 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…
October 13th, 2008 | by Nick | published in Google Reader
Over the past two weeks, some of you may have noticed (and might have even clicked on) a link to a satisfaction survey while using Google Reader. We’re always interested in learning more about how you use Google Reader and what features you’d like to s…
September 25th, 2008 | by Chrix Finne | published in Google Reader
Post by Robby Stein, Associate Product Marketing Manager
Today we added two more journalist contributors to the Power Readers in Politics project: Marc Ambinder (Associate Editor of The Atlantic) and Jerry Seib (Executive Washington Editor of The Wall…
September 23rd, 2008 | by Chrix Finne | published in Google Reader
It’s Tuesday here, so the Reader team is happy to announce a bunch of new features: friends worldwide, tagging with note, alphabetical ordering, and even last-crawl-date. Fun!
Friends Everywhere
Now that our new and improved sharing features are ava…
August 28th, 2008 | by Mihai Parparita | published in Google Reader
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…
August 18th, 2008 | by Chrix Finne | published in Google Reader
The Reader team has always been interested in politics, and we use Reader (of course) to stay current on all the political happenings. As we were reading and sharing amongst ourselves, it got us thinking: what would happen if political newsmakers used …
August 13th, 2008 | by dolapo | published in Google Reader
Today we’re excited to announce several improvements in the way sharing works in Reader. You’ve given us lots of feedback on the way our experimental sharing features work and we heard you loud and clear: you want more control over your sharing. We’ve …
May 12th, 2008 | by dolapo | published in Google Reader
Mobile web browsers have come a long way since we first introduced an XHTML version of Reader back in 2006. For example, iPhone and iPod Touch owners know how powerful having a full-featured browser is. We on the Reader team are heavy mobile Safari use…
May 8th, 2008 | by Mihai Parparita | published in Google Reader
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…
May 5th, 2008 | by Jenna Bilotta | published in Google Reader
Have you ever wanted to share something that you were reading, but you didn’t want to go through the hassle of subscribing to a whole feed for a single interesting article? And what about sharing content from sites with no feeds? There you are, reading…
March 12th, 2008 | by Chrix Finne | published in Google Reader
We on the Reader team are delighted to have a guest post today from Google usability expert T.V. Raman, who has announced on the Google Blog that Reader now supports ARIA-powered screenreading. Our thanks go out to T.V. and to Charles Chen, fellow Goog…
March 6th, 2008 | by Mihai Parparita | published in Google Reader
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…