Tag: reader

Send To Tumblr And Track With Bitly Google Reader Custom Link

Testing the "send to blogger" button... Send To Tumblr And Track With Bitly Google Reader Custom Link: " Google Reader just launched a “Send to Twitter” feature that allows you to share bit.ly links to interesting items in your reader with your Twitter friends.  First, awesome! Second, Google Reader has been getting lots of product development attention lately, and with all the awesome stuff they are adding, I spend all of my time there as opposed to twitter.com/home, facebook.com/home, or Tumblr Dashboard…

Wordpress Plugin: Displaying your Google Reader RSS subscriptions

I've been meaning to write this code for a while, and I really wanted to take a stab at writing a wordpress plugin so here it goes. The following takes in Google user credentials, and allows the user to display what RSS feeds they subscribe to on their wordpress blog Example: The RSS that I read Update: This plugin is now hosted by wordpress. click here

Google Reader gets a facelift

It's now less "bubble" looking. I'm wondering if its pulling from my gmail theme, but I unfortunately can't check that from work. I really like being able to hide the stats in the upper left. The only one I ever look at is how many total unread items I have.

Google I/O session videos posted with slides

As I said earlier, Quite a few presentations from Google I/O have been posted for your viewing pleasure. I'll be glued to these this weekend while I'm on call. Topics include Ajax KML Sketchup Android OpenSocial Appengine Data APIs Theory Talks Youtube Gears Mashups Maps and more!

Blogger adds bloggroll

[Blogger](http://buzz.blogger.com/2008/04/blog-list-scheduled-post-publishing- on.html) in draft added 2 new features today: a blogroll page element, and post scheduling. Post scheduling is pretty useful, you can write up your post, set the time (in the future) that you want it to post, and Blogger will do it automatically. The second feature, a blogroll, I would like a lot more if it was done better. The main thing I like about it is that it integrates with Google Reader so if I'm linking to my friend's…

Google Reader stats out of Wack

First, Techcrunch came up with a list of the top blogs that users subscribe to using Google Reader. The top 3 on the list were BBC with 202,463, Google News wih 192,100, and ESPN with 189,274 . Remember, these are only the stats if the subscriber is using Google Reader, obviously there are blogs with a higher subscription count, such as the Official Google Blog (They still haven't moved over to blogs.google.com eh?) with over 669,000 subscribers as reported by FeedBurner. It was all well and good that…

Displaying what you read from Google Reader

I've been wanting to share what I subscribe to in Google Reader and using the functions I wrote I was able to do just that. Check out the article for the full run down on the unofficial Google Reader API. This is written in python but should be easily portable to php. If i get around to it, I want to make a WordPress plugin so bloggers can share what they read with their readers. This will be followed (or in parallel depending on my mood) with a Javascript version so Blogspot users can do the same in the…

Google Reader adds Search Box!!

Finally!! No more using Yahoo Pipes to search the feeds! I'm sitting here waiting for my friend Eli to pick me up from his apartment for a nice lunch over at dreamworks, glancing over a few feeds (I have a LOT to catch up on when I get back to NY), and one jumped out at me, the Google Reader Team has finally added a search box to Google reader. This box will search all of your feeds! Also included in this release are: Ability to hide side navigation (I just tried it, it's very well done) Unread count is…

HOWTO: Google Reader API Functions

I've been wanting an API for Google reader since I started using it, and especially since i started gPowered so I could display a list of the feeds I read on the site. The official word on an API for reader is "It's coming in a few weeks," but that was back in late 2005. The reason being that at the time, the URLs the API would use were going to change a lot. So, after a bit of research and coding I came up with some python functions to do the job. The first step was authenticating against Google accounts…

View Google Groups posts in Reader

I don't know why I never noticed this before but you can subscribe to the mail sent to Google Groups through an RSS feed at the bottom of each group. I'm trying it out for a few groups, I might like it better then reading through the mail. I wonder if there is a way to subscribe to the rolled up versions of the posts...