Broadcasting Brain

Google Reader and the shared items functionality are without equal today, especially when it comes to the portability of the shared items blog. Glad to see you like it, though I did note a glaring omission in your most shared items sources. Maybe there was a typo?

You're right, Louis. It's missing anything from ReadWriteWeb and TheInquisitr.

Hm.

Is that what you meant? ;-)

Yes! You must have RWW and The Inquisitr in your results!

Also missing - WinExtra, Sarah In Tampa, Regular Geek and I'm Not Actually a Geek. :-)

Actually, I haven't the foggiest why I haven't been sharing your stuff, Louis. Hm.

Nice Louis! And yeah Mark - we must simply be sharing more...

I was using Netvibes before, having tried out Google Reader earlier. However as the number of subscriptions rise, Netvibes becomes harder to use. I started using Google Reader again and its wonderful for reading a huge number of feeds together. However one feature I miss from Netvibes is to view the actual web page in the reading window in place of the feed item. It was very useful in some cases.
Tried feedly too, but it was too unwieldy. Google Reader is my choice for now.

I'm with you, although I rarely use the actual Web page view of Netvibes.

Scoble actually predicted a Google Reader social bookmarking engine in 2006.

You can now add friends to your friends list, share feed items, bookmark single blog posts from blogs that you read on the web and here’s the kicker, there is now a blog recommendation engine that recommends blogs you do not read by what your friends list is subscribed to in their Google Readers.

Then, everything you share and bookmark in Google Reader of course comes up on your Google shared items page linked to by your Google profile.

What really blew me away was the recommendation engine. If you add as many of your email list subscribers as you can to your Google Reader you can get a real good idea of what other blogs your subscribers are reading.

The links in your shared items are all HTML and fully followed so every time one of your RSS subscribers shares a blog post it is creating incoming links to your site.

Better yet, it uses the exact blog post title you wrote so now your links use your keyword phrases and bookmarkers can’t change your title tag.

After talking to my SEO top dog contacts, they were all floored and assured me this is the new SEO tactic that no one knows about.

http://www.keywebdata.com/?p=136

It is kind of hard to add friends, the easiest way is to send a chat invite from Gmail and then email your contact you want to friend and have them email you back. It seems Google wants a two way conversation before they will allow you to become mutual friends.

If you would like to friend me, add chrislang at gmail.com to your Google Gmail chat and send me an email letting me know so I can return an email to you, thereby creating a two way connection in Google.

Google is quietly rolling this out behind the scenes but it is a full blown social bookmarking application and the blog recommendation engine is the new blog marketing strategy.

One thing I have not quite figured out is if using FeedBurner now hurts you since the links point at the FeedBurner redirect rather than your site like a WordPress feed does.