To me it really seems like Google is integrating everything they have. In the end they will just have one app, named GOOGLE and it will do everything from sending emails, sharing photos, making the dinner and flushing the toilet. Of course this is web 2.0, so you will be able to geotag and share where and what toilet you have just flushed.
Well, on to the point. Google has put a fun feature in Google Reader, the ability to see your Google Talk friends’ shared items. You can simply click on the share icon under each feed entry and it will also be available in your shared items.
This way you sort of create a feed of feeds, sharing all your favorite items. These will be available to others through the “Friends’ shared items” in the top left. This is one of the best sharing features I’ve seen, it is very much like the awesome system Stumbleupon uses. It is easy to share and easy to view shared items, a paradise for the active people among us.
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IMO, the one reader should let mobile web users/consumers navigate the physical world around them in one click. One reader to do it all. Say it and go to the site. Click on it and go to it.
Direct and indirect 2D codes should be another revenue stream for Google. They are not thinking out of the box yet.
Will Microsoft see it first or have they already?
Is the poker game being played to own the IP.