Yes, another post on Google Reader. After all, this is my most-used web-app and the source of 97% of tech and business news for me. (The other 3% comes from Yammer, Facebook, Twitter, and newspapers, in that order)
After Google's rollout of most cribbed-about and protested-against changes to its RSS-feed reading software, the entire reader world started showing their angst. Yours truly was no exception, and was quick to retort the announcement and implementation with Reader-Blogger-Plusser and New Google Reader Arrogantly Finds Its Way posts, which also mentioned a few people made unhappy by Google's decision. That did not include Brian Shih, ex-PM Google Reader (Sept 08—July 11), who criticized the changes and pointed out history of neglect (I felt the same once) in his blog post, which has gone viral amongst Readers.
Anyway, the point is, while everyone was busy complaining and wailing and cribbing and feeling helpless in the absence of a single better aggregator, this Shanghain young grad who goes by the pseudonym of Keakon, has developed a Chrome extension called Reader Sharer that rolls back the removal of social features of Reader, but retains the new look-and-feel and Plussing-one and other new features.
While this is an interesting extension, how long will this last would be interesting to watch for. Google had wanted to remove the Reader sharing to promote the Google Plus sharing, and may block, or completely remove the APIs that Keakon is using for his extension. Or, perhaps add the in-built sharing back.
If better sense prevails.
After Google's rollout of most cribbed-about and protested-against changes to its RSS-feed reading software, the entire reader world started showing their angst. Yours truly was no exception, and was quick to retort the announcement and implementation with Reader-Blogger-Plusser and New Google Reader Arrogantly Finds Its Way posts, which also mentioned a few people made unhappy by Google's decision. That did not include Brian Shih, ex-PM Google Reader (Sept 08—July 11), who criticized the changes and pointed out history of neglect (I felt the same once) in his blog post, which has gone viral amongst Readers.
Anyway, the point is, while everyone was busy complaining and wailing and cribbing and feeling helpless in the absence of a single better aggregator, this Shanghain young grad who goes by the pseudonym of Keakon, has developed a Chrome extension called Reader Sharer that rolls back the removal of social features of Reader, but retains the new look-and-feel and Plussing-one and other new features.
While this is an interesting extension, how long will this last would be interesting to watch for. Google had wanted to remove the Reader sharing to promote the Google Plus sharing, and may block, or completely remove the APIs that Keakon is using for his extension. Or, perhaps add the in-built sharing back.
If better sense prevails.
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