{"id":10981,"date":"2007-12-16T11:34:16","date_gmt":"2007-12-16T08:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/16\/google-reader-and-google-talk-integrated-sort-of\/"},"modified":"2007-12-16T11:34:16","modified_gmt":"2007-12-16T08:34:16","slug":"google-reader-and-google-talk-integrated-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/16\/google-reader-and-google-talk-integrated-sort-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Reader and Google Talk integrated. Sort of."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Google Reader has been recently integrated with Google Talk<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Somewhat.\u00c2\u00a0 If you use Google Reader and Google Talk, and you have some buddies in your Google Talk contact list, who also use Google Reader, then from now on you will be able to see each other’s shared items.\u00c2\u00a0 Through the “Settings<\/em>“, you can control who you want and don’t want to see in the “Friends’ shared items<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

This is a really nice piece of functionality.\u00c2\u00a0 First of all, it saves you all the effort of finding and subscribing to “Shared items” RSS feeds of all your friends one by one.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Secondly, it helps to highlight interesting stuff from your buddies, even those that you might accidentally omitted from your subscriptions.<\/p>\n

So, what am I missing there?\u00c2\u00a0 Two things.<\/p>\n

First, the option to rename buddies.\u00c2\u00a0 I am blessed with contacts who choose all sorts of nicknames and avatars.\u00c2\u00a0 I prefer real names.\u00c2\u00a0 And I attach real face pictures to all my contacts whenever I can.\u00c2\u00a0 And I’ve done it in my Gmail contacts.\u00c2\u00a0 That information should be used for the Google Reader friends list.<\/p>\n

Secondly, I need an option to enter a discussion with my friends regarding an item in my Google Reader.\u00c2\u00a0 That can be something I have shared, or that can be something my friends shared.\u00c2\u00a0 I want a “discuss in chat” and “discuss in email” buttons.\u00c2\u00a0 “Discuss in email” should be, in this case, different from “Email this item”.\u00c2\u00a0 We both (me, and the friend with who I’m entering a discussion) have read the item.\u00c2\u00a0 We just need a reference, like a subject, and URL to the item (original article?), just in case we need to run through it again or quote something.<\/p>\n

While the second point is harder to implement (requires user studies, interface cluttering, etc), I’m really surprised that the first one wasn’t done.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Google Reader has been recently integrated with Google Talk.\u00c2\u00a0 Somewhat.\u00c2\u00a0 If you use Google Reader and Google Talk, and you have some buddies in your Google Talk contact list, who also use Google Reader, then from now on you will be able to see each other’s shared items.\u00c2\u00a0 Through the “Settings“, you can control who … Continue reading Google Reader and Google Talk integrated. Sort of.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[1939,101,1265,1985,2069,2071,1264,19],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-10981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-personal","tag-data-aggregation","tag-features","tag-feeds","tag-google-gmail","tag-google-reader","tag-google-talk","tag-integration","tag-tools"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t