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Meee — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:13:52 -0000

there is a thing to find similar feeds. press find discover on the side

Re: louisgray.com: 10 Suggestions to Improve Google Reader

Sal Cangeloso — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:09:00 -0000

Some great suggestions there! I especially like the thoughts on further customization and a better tracking of reading habits.

I think between our two lists we almost got it nailed : )

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djmundy — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:23:00 -0000

I like your ideas about making better use of the statistics and suggesting links for "More like this" - but would take it one step further.

By using this information and combining it with that collected from people with similar interests, it could have a better idea about which items may be more likely to interest me. Then I could choose "Sort by auto" and know that the items which interest me will always be at the top.

But how does Google Reader know which items I actually liked? Reader doesn't know how many items I've read - just how many times I've pressed "J" on my keyboard!

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gchei — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 23:07:00 -0000

The Feedable reader (reader.feedable.com) includes some of your suggestions. For instance, you don't need to be subscribed to a feed in order to save articles to your linkblog. Feedable also eliminates duplicates, and lets you drag and drop feeds to organize them.

(Full disclosure-- I'm part of the Feedable team)

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Mihai Parparita — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 17:34:00 -0000

Funnily enough, the Reader team just had a big all-day brainstorming session about where to go next, and ideas similar to many of your suggestions were discussed.

Mihai Parparita
Google Reader Engineer

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Dorai — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 07:13:00 -0000

Great suggestions. If Google can take their blog reader and divide into a set of Google widgets, it may drive innovation and promote Google pages as well.

Looking at your list, there seem to be items that can be done on the back end(feed aggregator) and a set of items on the front end which can be done by a set of scriptable components.

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Rajiv Das — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 04:37:00 -0000

By sheer co-incidence I ended up doing a comparison og blog readers. Your opinion on this if any.
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Alexandre Rafalovitch — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 02:29:00 -0000

Number 3 (negative keywords), might be something suitable for Yahoo pipes or other RSS pipeline processors.

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joey — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 02:16:00 -0000

authentication for those feeds that sit behind passwords ...

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Pranav Chavda — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 19:31:00 -0000

In short, Google is recommended Download a copy of newsfire, note all features, build and implement.

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Steven Noble — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 09:21:00 -0000

Eliminating duplicate items is a big one!

Also, better integration with Google News, rather than just reading its feeds which often results in not all articles from a publication coming through.

Lastly, the ability to unsubscribe from a feed but leave it sitting there, so you can easily click to resubscribe in the future.