Ridllr - Bringing sharing back to Reader
As many of you have heard, Google Reader's social features are going away really soon. The official
Google Reader blog post describes some of the changes.
More about Reader's changes
From what I can gather:
- will not be able to see shared items in google reader anymore.
- share-with-note will still work for the time being.
- will allow you to +1 to Google+.
- will NOT allow you to migrate your followers/followed people.
- Google+ has a very limited API and also no ability to do restriction by source (i.e. you can't separate my baby photos or the photos from yesterday's night out on the town from my favourite articles on the Canadiens' dismal state of affairs).
Ridllr will allow you to continue to use Google Reader to consume and share items of interest with your friends.
More details about what Ridllr does.
If you will miss consuming shared items from your friends in Google Reader, Ridllr can help!
- If you grant Ridllr permission, we will saves your friend information from Google Reader, and rebuilds (something very much like) the "people you follow" folder. You can continue to follow read your friends' shared items.
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Once sharing is removed from Google Reader (later this week!), Ridllr will allow you to continue to share items by assigning a tag to them.
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A Chrome extension will be released along with UI is out to help automate this.
- Ridllr also has the option of allowing you to use the "star" feature to share content but this is not enabled by default due to some potentially suboptimal side effects.
Interested in knowing more about the mechanism? See details about how Ridllr works.
