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Stuff I’d like to see Google Reader do

Stephanie — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:21:16 +0000

I wish I could filter my feeds like I do my email, marking the news items in my web comic feeds as read automatically and blocking (deleting? marking as read?) feeds originating at certain URLs (some of my friends have different… taste than I do… repeatedly).

I also wish I could share my feeds with different audiences in mind. Right now what I share is pretty bland because my clients, friends, and family all see it. I can’t export only fun shared items to my Facebook profile and only web related shared items to my blog everything I share goes everywhere.

I used to wish I could use the handy bookmarklets to page through my items and have a handy way to share but they solved that with the notes bookmarklet.

That said, I live in Reader these days, I check it as much as I do my email!

Google Launches Social Graph API

Stephanie — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:10:58 +0000

There were several speakers at WDN who spoke about open social networks, portability and consolidating friend information across applications. I found the talks interesting and then, while we were still at the conference, Google announced a Social Graph API aiming to do just what we’d been talking about.

We made the cut!

Stephanie — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:50:43 +0000

One of the videos we made the other day made the cut into the final Gmail behind the scenes video. Alistair’s fancy editing shows the three of us morphing between chin up bars with 1:37 left to go.

A second video of ours was chosen as a featured clip. If you got to the page with the final Gmail behind the scenes video and scroll down to the map, our multi monitor video appears if you click the Vancouver icon.

No, wait, I wasn’t done reading that!

Stephanie — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 08:23:34 +0000

When I went on vacation a few weeks ago I got a little behind on my RSS feeds. I’d manage to whittle it down from almost 200 unread articles to about 40 over the course of the month, while keeping up with all the new articles, and I was feeling pretty good about it when I went to switch my view from new items to all items and hit “mark all as read” instead.

Noooooooooooo!

This is an unrecoverable error. There’s no undo and there’s no way to mark an article more than a certain number of days (30?) old as unread again even if I open it individually.

A quick visit to the Reader group confirms that I’m not crazy and I’m not the only one who has done this.

What gives Google?

10 seconds of my 15 minutes

Stephanie — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 23:32:34 +0000

Google is having this contesty thingy. Which basically requires you to make 10 second (or less) videos of how gMail gets around the world. The idea is for people to get the “Mvelope” from the left to the right side of the screen.

Yesterday after work Alistair filmed videos with my and Kenzie’s help, three are up on youtube now: