Google Reader
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On October 7th 2005, Google launched Google Reader, a feed
reader, or "news aggregator", capable of reading Atom and RSS feeds.
Google Reader is accessed through a web browser and features an
interface similar to Gmail. Its main online
competitors are My Yahoo!,Newsgatorand Bloglines.
Using Google Reader
Requirements
To use Google Reader, you will need the one of the following browsers:
- IE 6
- Firefox 1.0+
- Safari 1.3+
- Netscape 7.2+
- Mozilla 1.7+
You will also need a Google Account, which is free of charge. In all
cases, JavaScript must be enabled for Google Reader to work.
Tips and Tricks
Here are the keyboard shortcuts for using Google Reader more efficiently.
- j next - view the next item in your reading list
- k prev - view the previous item
- n page down - scroll down a page in your reading list
- p page up - scroll up a page
- h top - go to the top of your reading list
- r refresh - refresh your reading list
- s star - star the current item
To resize the item view you simply need to adjust your browser window
size.
To add a "Add To Google Reader" button to your own webpage visit the Google
Reader Button link below. The button will alow readers on you website to add
your site feed to Google Reader with a click of a button. No longer will
users need to copy and re-paste the RSS or Atom feed URL.
Feeds
You can subscribe to feeds using either Google Reader's search function,
or by entering in the exact URL of the RSS or Atom feed. New posts from your
feeds are then shown on the left-hand side of the screen. You can then order
that list by date or relevance.
Politics and Google Reader
So why has Google created this? Where is it going? Well, one of Google's
aims is to collect information, and Google Reader is doing just this in two
primary ways:
- Providing Google with information about people's favorite feeds,
- Providing the user with a way of sorting their feeds.
What Google needs to do now is link this and their other products
together; they are creating a lot of different
tools, but they
are not linked to provide an efficient service. This implies that Google is
still experimenting with web technology and that someday you feeds will be
the main source of news and information for a user, and that feeds will be
directly linked to search results and personalized home pages.
External link
Google Pages:
Tutorials:
Reviews:
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