I don’t know about you, but being an RSS-addicted crack whore I can’t seem to keep up with everything. I think Google Reader needs a “cluster view” to weed out all the duplicated stories; much like Google News does. So for example, it would pick the most popular story about this AOL OpenID thing and then all the stories related to it could be under it. I’m not sure how exactly this would be done, but seeing as Reader has statistics they could see which “item” is most popular in the “Reader Community” and rank it accordingly.
I hope Google is listening, because if I don’t get this feature soon I’m going to lose my mind.
I really thought I was going insane this morning when I started reading my feeds, Google Reader grabs the next 20 items ahead of time as you know. So it just happened to grab the next 20 which included Boing Boing’s post. At the time they seemed to think it was a good idea to embed flash. Now it’s gone of course. But scared me because I thought I was being taken over by some odd bunny virus.
I use flashblock but apparently this didn’t prove effective in this case since I had allowed it on “google.com”. Flash needs an option to not auto play stuff. The bunnies were cute after I found a way to annihilate them, so plug.
While it may not be promiscuous, Google Reader will make them boys go loco. It’s easy, but not sleazy. Feed trends come and go like seasons. That’s right, it’s hot, hot. If you hadn’t noticed by now I’m blatantly ripping off Fergie.
Before I tarnish all credibility I think I’d actually better say something meaningful about Google Reader. It’s a really great product ever since they re-launched with the current version. Prior to that I wasn’t into rss aggregators, but it turns out it’s a really great way to read The Internets. Let me just put it this way, if you already use Gmail and love that, then this is virtually the same thing–an inbox for the web.
Last week during the CES and Macworld explosion, my Reader had a mild case of diarrhea. Everything seems to be plugged up now; if I read one more iPhone story I think I might explode. One feature I hope for in the future would be clustering. Let me explain; let’s say there’s multiple stories about the same topic. Why not take a Techmeme approach to it and present them in clusters, preventing duplicates–which I so often get. Search would be nice too…
Lastly, if you’d like to find out what I’m sharing, here’s my linkblog link. You can also find a snippet of it at the bottom of my blog; it appears as a regular post. Be prepared for some high traffic on that though, because even according to Matt Cutts my “feed voracity” is extreme.
From your 305 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 17,213 items, starred 166 items, and shared 991 items.
