Comments on: Google Reader Has Just Got Socially Sexier

By: Stephen Cronin

Stephen Cronin — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:43:40 +0000

Good Post Mark, I'm a big fan of Google Reader, but mainly as a feed reader rather than as a social networking tool. I see the benefits of that, but I don't want to share everything with everyone - so your link to the Google post about the Notes feature is great. Thanks! Stephen Cronins last blog post..IFrameWidgets 1.01 Update - Fix For WordPress 2.5

By: Mark O'Neill

Mark O'Neill — Wed, 21 May 2008 12:09:04 +0000

Good question. To be honest, I don’t know. My gut feeling is that the Digg asking price is too high and so this may be Google’s fall back plan, Plan B.

I have never seen the sense of Google buying Digg because where would Digg fit into Google? It would seem so…..out of place, so un-Google-like. If they did buy it, they would probably just buy it to say “hah! We bought it and it’s ours! Now no-one else can have it!”

I hope they don’t buy Digg and instead concentrate on developing this instead. What they are doing with Reader / Gmail / iGoogle has MUCH more potential.

By: Fat Lester

Fat Lester — Tue, 20 May 2008 22:00:53 +0000

Very insightful post! The thing I’m now wondering is that (assuming you are correct in your assertion that Google is building a social network) what that means relative to the rumors that Google had been inquiring about a possible purchase of Digg.

Is this an indication that they may be content do the project in-house rather than pay the prices reportedly being asked for the social news site?

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By: rampantheart

rampantheart — Sun, 18 May 2008 04:49:18 +0000

I have been using Bloglines as my feed aggregator and am satisfied with it. But i didn’t know Google reader would be this user friendly.I have never even bothered to check out Google notebook and Reader before and worse, just now am i hearing abut Picks for you. Can’t wait to check it out!Thanks for the info!

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