Google Reader Provides Linkblog Tool

Posted on March 26, 2006

Google Reader has a new tool that lets users share the favorite RSS posts they have read with others. One benefit of the shared feature for bloggers is that it can be used to create linkblogs that can be placed on a blog's sidebar. These linkblogs will update each time the blogger stars another RSS entry in their Google Reader. Ollie blogs that he has already added it as a sidebar on Dayorama.

On the right hand menu bar, below our prospects, you'll now find 'Recommended Reading'. This is a list of the most recent articles I've marked with a 'star' in Google Reader, the RSS reader I use. I'll be sure in future to mark the items I think are worth reading with a star, and they'll turn up on the right hand menu bar automatically. You can click the links to read the original articles, or follow a separate link to the home page of the website the article came from.

Google Reader developer Mihai Parparita has more about the new feature on persistent.info. He explains how the shared feature can be used to splice feeds. Mihai has also added a linkblog sidebar to his site using the new sharing feature from Google.