Google Reader has been one of the most famous web-based aggregator capable of reading Atom or RSS Feeds. Recently it introduced a few new changes which might radically improve its usage and provide users with new ways of sharing data.

Find and Follow People

This new feature enables you to follow anyone who has chosen to share their items publicly. If you feel that you want to share your items only with friends then you can change the setting in order to disable public sharing. This feature, similar to Twitter, enables you to follow friends, celebrities and people whose items might be useful to you. You can use the new people search feature to find people to follow. You can also preview the shared items, before you choose to follow someone.

‘Like’ Feature

This feature enables you to select items and mark them as ‘like’, similar to the feature already available in Facebook. This can be used a way to show the author or the publisher of a particular post that you like it. All ‘liked’ items are public and anyone reading the item can see that you are a fan of it. The shortcut key ‘L’ enables you to like an item with just a press of a key.

Custom URL for your Shared Page

Google Reader now enables you to have a custom URL displaying your shared items publicly. For example, my shared items can be found here – http:

Hopefully these features will increase the usage of feeds and Subscription to RSS Feeds. You can follow Gethu.com’s RSS Feeds here : http://feeds.feedburner.com/GethuBlog

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