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Google’s next trick

Started by paulmwatson · 10 months ago

The “next” bookmarklet feature of Google Reader is an interesting one. You never need visit your feed aggregator with it. Just hit it everytime you want to read the latest unread item in your RSS reading list and it will take you straight to the referenced page.

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  • James Corbett

    2 years ago

    I love the new Google Reader Paul but I was really scratching my head with regard to that feature. It seems to defeat the whole purpose of feed aggregation. BUT, now that you mention photo and email feeds it starts to make some sense, though yes, as you mention it requires control over the tag or feed. Interesting....
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  • James Corbett

    2 years ago

    Actually Paul, I've just realized that there now is a Tag specific Next bookmarklet. Did that slip in on the recent update?
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  • Paul Watson

    2 years ago

    Fantastic, you are dead right James. I just checked the Goodies page again and there is a tag drop down. Not sure when they put that in.
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