Google Reader Adds Universal Sharing

Google Reader has added a new feature called "Note in Reader" that lets you share any item from the Web, not just RSS feed content.

To share something, all you need to is is drag this bookmarklet to your bookmarks to get started.

Like Google Reader Shared Items, these new posts get rolled up onto a single page, which anyone can subscribe to. In addition, you can add notes, but it's not clear if these are searchable.

The new feature is similar to what Facebook, Friendfeed and others offer and moves Google Reader one step closer to being a social net for shared content.

UPDATE: The official word from the Google Reader team.

Comments

[Mihai Parparita]

You're quite fast in noticing this, faster than our official blog post :)

http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2008/05/share-anything-anytime-anywhere.html

Hope you enjoy the feature.

Mihai Parparita
Google Reader Engineer

[Robert Scoble]

Glad to see this, but has Google Reader lost to FriendFeed already? Tons of early adopters have certainly moved their reading behavior over to FriendFeed.

[Thomas]

Seems like a challenge to del.icio.us too. It's basically bookmarking and you can combine these saved items with your shared items from your Google Reader RSS feeds. It makes sense to consolidate shared/ bookmarked items, but it would have been nice if this feature also allowed tagging.

[jacob morgan]

hi steve,

i like the new redesign (i know you did a little while ago). thanks for the great content. have you noticed the conversation (meaning the comments) moving away from your blog and onto other mediums such as twitter?

J

[James Corbett]

I think it signifies more than a social network for shared content - I think it's a step towards a universal web annotation tool. Bear in mind that you can now post notes (without sharing) to your shared feed/page which means Google Reader has taken a huge step towards what I've been calling Google ReWriter for more than a year. Now it's encroaching on Blogger's territory and will eventually assimilate that tool. No need for separate web/feed reading and publishing tools when you can do it all with a single annotation suite - Google ReWriter.

[matt melnick]

Steve
I love your blog. Good info on google reader. Tell me, why does your shared page ask to add your page as an rss feed and mine doesnt?

my shared page
http://www.google.com/s2/sharing/stuff?user=104004281242924151374
has an rss feed

my reader page
http://www.google.com/reader/shared/03246153131442018026
doesn't, but yours does. What am I not seeing?

I'm asking you because I can't find a way to ask google support directly, without going to groups or wading thru suggestion areas.

-Matt

[ravinder]

thank you