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Google Reader Blogrolls

Josh — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:49:58 +0000

The blogroll over on the right of this site is still powered by my ancient (well, in Internet time) Bloglines subscription list. It worked pretty well for a while but ever since I moved my feed reading over to Google Reader it’s been static. Sorry to all those quality writers out there who haven’t gotten the link love they deserve.

Google Reader just launched blogroll support, but only for specific tags. I’d really like support for all public feeds. They don’t take comments on the Official gReader blog so this is my request. And yes, I know I could create a tag and add it to every public feed, but that’s both a pain and difficult to maintain/update.

Of course, now I’m noticing that it appears to only take trackbacks from other Blogspot blogs. Bogus.

Google Pages

Josh — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:17:44 +0000

A very cool tool coming out of Google today, Google Pages, their wysiwyg website editor. I’ve only given it a cursory try so far but it’s pretty impressive. Very, very simple yet still fairly powerful. As to who it’s targeted to, I have no clue. But I like web toys. Check out screenshots:

Page Manager

Editor

A very simple Image Editor

A nice AJAX-y file uploader

Link editing for dummies

Ain’t Google cool?

Googleness

Josh — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:45:32 +0000

As always, new stuff coming out of Google today and yesterday:

For those of us who use Gmail as a backend to our own domain email address (e.g. all my @skaroff.com emails get forwarded to a Gmail account), Google has introduced multiple account support. Just go to Settings > Accounts in Gmail and you can add multiple email addresses. Now when you compose a message you can select what account you’re sending from and that address is what shows up in the From field. Finally no more relying on the Reply-To field.
AND Gmail appears to now be open to anyone. No more invitations required. Though you do seem to need a mobile phone…
I’ve yet to try it, but they’ve upgraded Google Desktop to version 2 beta and added a bunch of features. It now features a sidebar with news, web clippings, weather, email, etc and a plug-in API to allow third party developers to create add ons. On top of that it indexes your hard drive providing instantaneous search of everything on your hard drive and the web at once. Naturally there are privacy concerns, but as Kottke writes, this could be the start of something big.
Finally, while I wasn’t initially impressed with the client itself, yesterday Google released the initial version of Google Talk, their Gmail integrated instant messaging and voice conferencing platform. The best part is it’s built on the open Jabber protocol so if you use Gaim, Trillian, Adium, or any number of other IM programs that support Jabber, you can get right on the network without any additional software. Ben Guild has instructions on how to set it up.