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Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Google Reader a Stealth Digg Killer?

Steve Mermelstein wisely states that Google Reader could be a digg killer. The catch is a) people need to be using Google's sharing features and b) they would need to add a feature that displays how many people have shared each post. It occurs to me the same could be said for Google displacing del.icio.us.

I don't see this happening anytime soon, but as Google becomes more integrated in our lives the possibility looks more real. By the way if you want to search your Google Reader feeds you can do so easily using Google Co-op. Handy hack.

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