Google Reader: Sharing With Notes!
Sharing your links just got better: A note system has been added!
Google reader allows you to share the links you find with friends, and now they’ve added the ability to send a quick note with your shared post. Using the new “Notes” function under “Your Stuff“, you have the ability to either send a quick note to your friends, or add a note to any links you share.
Now you can can finally say, “Hey, I found this and thought you might like it!”
The other function you will see under the “Notes” is that there is a bookmarklet that you can drag to your browser’s toolbar. Now you can share ANY story/link that you happen to find online with a note and optional ‘snippet’, just by pressing it. When using this bookmarklet, you can turn off the “Add to shared items” checkbox to just add the story to your own notes list.
This new feature seems like it has plenty of room to grow, like, how about a function similar to Twitter, where you can send a note to a single friend? Or, how about the ability to have tags, search, organization, and the ability to delete notes?
Google, you’ve got something good started here, so if you bring this one home, it could become the new social pipeline!
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What may be just a UI bug, you can “unshare” a note, but you can’t delete it once it is created. Other than that, it looks like an awesome addition!
@David:
this seems to be working now. Can you try it out and let us know if it works for you as well?
@Brian
Yes, they seem to have fixed it, and have added a delete button… a very important addition!
@David:
Great, glad it is working for you. Google aims to please!
You can already share a Google Reader item with one person by the email link. That of course allows you to add all the comments you like.