Tips and Tricks for the New Google Reader
The social net working site of Google has come out with new additional features in the Google Reader. Here are few tips and tricks. The improvements in the Google Reader include giving you more control on the information you want to share and accessing the information easily that others want to publicly share from with in the Google Reader.
- One way is to publicly declare your shared items and hope that others will read it and come to you. Another way is to use the “new people search feature” which is powered by “Google Profiles”. From with in the Google Reader you can browse for publicly declared articles of your choice by people and can also browse by name, topic and location and once you find what you are looking for you can follow them.
- Privacy is provided to you in what items you want to share and with whom. Items can now be share with “Specific Group” or “Multiple Groups”. Only the people that are added to your sharing Group will have the access to your comments on the shared items. The composition of the group could be the same as your Gmail contacts if it is used. Any changes you make in the Google Reader will be made to your Gmail as well.
- If you wish that any one who visits you in your “Google profile” have access to what you are interested in, a link can be added to your shared items on the Google Reader to your Google Profile. By checking the box “Add a link to my Google profile” you will make it possible for others on the Google Reader who search for shared items to find your shared items and follow them. To make it more convenient the “Reader Shared Items Page” can be given a custom URL. This facility has to be enabled on your Google Profile under “Profile URL”.
- Any thing you have read and liked can be declared so by clicking “like” and all such “likes” are made public and others coming across the same item become aware that you are a “fan”. This way you will come across and discover people with similar interests and can “share your items” with similar minded people.
- Although your shared items are public only people you have added to the shared group can see or add comments. This can be enabled by the check box.
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