 Last Wednesday, Google posted in its Official Reader Blog that it recently implemented a few improvements to help users interact on its Reader platform. Hold on a second, what is Reader anyway? Google describes Reader as a “personalized inbox for the entire web,” in that you can have recently updated content on your favorite websites delivered to your Reader account. From there you can organize, archive, and brush up on the current events which interest you at your own speed. The new updates Google has introduced seem to revolve around the “Sharing” feature- many of which are geared towards delivering more control and flexibility to users. Now you can “manage a Friends list within Reader separate from your Gmail chat contacts.” What this means is that you can create customized lists of friends you want to specifically share content with on Reader. As Google writes, you can “choose to either continue sharing with all of your chat buddies or create a custom Friends list with those that you hand-select.” There also appear to be new features to help you manage incoming requests for friends who want to share with you. Because, as most of us learned in kindergarten- sharing is a two-way street. So now on Reader, you will receive a pop-up notification when someone is in the sharing mood. This notification box will display a snippet of the content they want to share as well as options to either subscribe or deny. Google concluded the post, as always, encouraging feedback on the friendly features, and hoping they will help increase “the flexibility and control you have over who you share with.” |
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