Google Reader Share with note May07 '08

Google Reader recently extended their "Share" feature, to include a short notation along with the item.

Screenshot of Google Reader

Ever since Reader's launch, I've always loved the basic "Share" feature. With one click or keyboard stroke, I instantly publish the link to my Shared Items stream. I use that page as a link blog, and embed the links on other sites, like this blog you're reading now.

The best part of the new "notation" feature is that it makes Google Reader's "Shared" feature more like delicious. I don't use delicious regularly, and I've been looking for a way to provide my own thoughts to items I share, which Google Reader previously lacked. This feature now meets those needs.

Extending your Shared Items stream

For those interested in parsing your Shared Items feed in order to display your items and notations on other sites, you can see an example of how I've done so on the front page of this site.

Screenshot of my personal site

I currently don't have notations included, but if I want to, the notes are available in the feed. Here is an example node:

<gr:annotation>

    <content type="html">

        Testing the new "Share with note" feature of Google Reader.
        This kind of makes it like delicious - the ability to bookmark 
        something and provide a description with it.

    </content>

    <author gr:user-id="38946639871654532929" gr:profile-id="1424233330745740096912">

        <name>Matthom</name>

    </author>

</gr:annotation>

Each shared item includes this node, so you can obtain it and display it on your page alongside the shared link itself.

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matthom is published and produced by Matt Thommes - an independent publishing enthusiast, mobile blogger, content creator, informative writer, web developer from Chicago. Never one to conform, Matt intends to promote the effect the web has on our lives, in an effort to intensify, instruct, and clarify all that is happening around us.

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