socialmedian: Google Reader is your new watercooler

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Mar 11, 2009

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One of the things that we love best about Reader is the ability to easily share interesting items with your friends. In fact, we like it so much that we've been adding bunches of new sharing features over the last year including choosing friends to share with, sharing with note and the sharing bookmarklet. But we quickly realized that one of the most important pieces of the sharing cycle was missing: the ability to have conversations with friends about all those shared items.

With our new conversation feature, you can have private discussions on shared items with your friends. Now, instead of obsessively asking everyone in your office if they have seen that awesome lego cake article you shared last night, they can tell you how awesome you are, right within Google Reader!

What's new with this feature:

You can comment on any items that you share or that have been shared by your friends.

In order to keep track of conversations, you can check out the new "Comment view" which is optimized for tracking conversations and commenting. Comment view is a little different

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Comments (6)

Robdiana,

Mar 11, 2009

I hope the future plans include opening it up a little so that people can see the conversations and API access.

Nigelwalsh,

Mar 12, 2009

sounds like a move on friendfeed to me

Esjay,

Mar 12, 2009

Let the abuse begin... by me!

Rexhammock,

Mar 12, 2009

When I get confused over where all these conversations are taking place, I really pity people who haven't even figured out how to set up an iGoogle page. I don't want any more damn water coolers.

Davidpetherick,

Mar 12, 2009

Drinking the Google Kool-aid!

Google is getting more and more social - with Latitude and with Reader and Friend Connect, they are creating a social network by stealth - let the geeks work out the kinks for you, and then let the normal people pick up on it when it's proven and robust. A la Gmail. As per Docs. As per AdSense.

Clever Google.

Tweric,

Mar 13, 2009

Something else is the "new watercooler?" I don't know if I can handle all these watercoolers. Can I say the same stuff at each one?

Maybe I can make a new verb: I igoogled it.