Dear Google Reader,
I really like you a lot. You’re like my own personal New York Times. Every day I come into work and I open you up and skim through your “pages”. I like that I can share with my friends and what not (although I’m not going to lie…I think they get sick of me sharing about the cloud). But you know, sometimes I want to share things I’ve read not in Google Reader. Like today I saw this in a tweet:
http://www.amazon.com/Daemon-Daniel-Suarez/dp/0525951113/
It looks like a pretty cool book. I thought some of my followers on Google Reader might like to know about it. So I went and asked The Google to see if there was a way for me to tweet things to Google Reader. Alas there was not.
Google Reader this made me sad. I mean there is twittercal which is super awesome because I can tweet things to my Google Calendar. So why can’t there be twittergooglereader (or something with a better name). I mean don’t you know that the more social media like you become the more I want your functionality to expand and interact with other social media outlets?
Sigh. I still love you though.
Rosalyn
Hi Rosalyn,
Have you tried our “Note in Reader” bookmarklet? You can find at the top right of the “Your stuff” page (http://www.google.com/reader/view/user/-/state/com.google/self). Once you drag it to your browser’s bookmarks toolbar, when you’re on a webpage that you want to share in Reader, you just press it.
Mihai Parparita
Google Reader Engineer
I don’t use Google Reader, but it reads RSS/Atom feeds, right?
I don’t actually use Twitter much either, but I bet there’s a way to make an RSS feed from your twitter. If you can figure out how to make an RSS feed from your twitter posts which include a certain tag, subscribe to it in Google Reader, and you’re done!
RSS/Atom feeds are pretty awesome for building ‘mash ups’, such a simple thing, so powerful. (I sometimes take RSS feeds from Craigslist searches for something I’m interested in, feed it to an RSS-to-email service, now I’ve got email alerts from craigslist even though craigslist doens’t support that directly. Neat!)
I think I just figured it out for you. This feed will include any posts from rosy1280 (that’s you, right?) that include the hashtag #publish. So any tweet you send including #publish will be in this feed. Subscribe to it in Reader, done!
http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=+%23publish+from%3Arosy1280
awesome jonathan! thanks for that…my brain isn’t interested these days in building. only in accomplishing to do lists.
@Mihai Parparita
this is going to sound dumb but i hate bookmarks. they take up real estate in my browser window and they require me to be using a specific computer to work. i’m too cloudy to deal with something that requires a specific machine.
i like jonathan’s option. i’m testing it out now to see how it works. it might be a good hack for others though. perhaps it might be useful in developing other services for google reader.
all in all i think you guys are doing an awesome job. i would lament about such things if i didn’t love the service.