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Conversation Agent: Twitter and Google Reader Aren't at War

2009-11-20T17:32:32Z

Techmeme's Gabe Rivera makes news aggregation profitable | Technology | Los Angeles Times

2009-11-20T03:17:04Z

NewsGator Social Sites’ Top 25 Microblogging Features For SharePoint

2009-11-19T17:50:44Z

In light of all of the chatter over the last 24 hours about enterprise social computing and microblogging, I thought it was timely to highlight NewsGator Social Sites’ microblogging features that are built in to SharePoint. If you have SharePoint, this is a great way to meet employee demand for microblogging in a way that easily integrates with the rest of their workflow and communications. And for more info, check out our microblogging whitepaper released today.

1. Provide ‘Twitter-like’ microblogging capabilities within SharePoint
2. Engage in lightweight, efficient conversations or share status updates (140 characters per entry)
3. Integrate microblogging comments with Social Sites’ Activity Stream
4. Use microblogging features to comment on other SharePoint activity such as document uploads, blog posts, or wiki contributions
5. View a list of colleagues that are ‘following’ your microblogging activity
6. Integrate with social network updates from Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.
7. Use a “Like” capability to provide easy feedback on activities
8. Upload photos and videos to your status update via mobile, desktop, or portal
9. Automatically add thumbnails of the web page that was saved to your Bookmarks

10, Create custom lists of people and/or communities to follow

11. Filter status updates by colleagues, communities, your activity, top updates, or custom created lists of people and/or communities

12. Target messages to specific users or communities

13. Search across all microblogging activity including status, comments and events using keywords or hashtags

14. Integrate conversations within Social Sites Communities to enable focused conversations around a topic

15. Use email to update your status while away from your SharePoint social computing environment
16. Receive daily email digests of your colleagues’ microblogging activity
17. Receive email notifications on activities you have created or activities that you have commented on and use email to respond to subsequent updates on the thread

18. Use Social Sites’ mobile application that brings microblogging to the iPhone

19.View a global conversations page that provides an overall timeline for the status activity across the organization
20. Employ hashtags to easily classify and discover status updates with a topic area
21. View a tag cloud of all hashtags used in updates

22. Enable administrators to delete inappropriate updates or comments
23. Utilize APIs for consuming and publishing activities
24. Easily support your company’s SharePoint security protocols and Active Directory implementation
25. Integrate microblogging within your employees workflow rather than providing it as a separate destination

To learn more about enterprise microblogging within SharePoint, send me an email and we can schedule a demo for your company.

The Most Important Feature of a Multi-Device Web: Syncing

2009-11-19T14:24:03Z

As the ecosystem of devices proliferates, with the iPhone and Android platforms coming into their own (along with the ever-impending iTablet), we’re seeing a single feature become the most important and critical piece of new technology: syncing.

If you sync seamlessly across devices, people will love you for it. It’s why I love the Apple ecosystem. I add a calendar event to my desktop, iPhone, or web app, and it automagically appears on the others. All of my mail is synced in all of these places so I never have to worry about missing email or knowing whether I replied or having to delete the same messages over again. The amount of time that this saves is invisible, yet invaluable.

Thanks to Flickr for hosting this pic

Yesterday during dinner with a few tech folks we hit on the topic of Dropbox, a file-syncing application that teams can use to collaborate. Dropbox is as simple as an app gets…simply install it, throw some files into your Dropbox folder, and it syncs to other computers or other people you want to share with. The reason people love it is that it just works, automagically. It simply syncs your files…that’s all it does. But it does it so well that people use the language of love to describe it.

Isn’t that a bit odd? Saying things like “I LOVE Dropbox!”? Well, in a world where we value any time savings like it were gold, seamless syncing becomes the gold standard. There is nothing worse than trying to figure out which copy of data is the latest, best, or primary copy. We know what we did last…if all of our devices knew then software would seem truly smart.

Today Robert Scoble tweeted about his love for the Kindle:

This is not ridiculously sophisticated functionality. It’s straight-forward…when Scoble reads something on his Kindle and then views the same thing on his laptop the software remembers where he was. It’s a bookmark, that’s it. And because it’s such a simple feature it might get overlooked…

So if you’re building an app used across devices consider focusing like gangbusters on the simple ability to seamlessly sync everything, so that people can immediately start in using one device where they left off using another. After seeing the rapturous language people use around this simple feature, I’m convinced it might be THE feature of a multi-device web.

FYI: I’m writing a new book on creating great sign-up experiences called Make them Care!. If you would like to be reminded when it comes out, go here.

Calvin and Hobbes for November 19, 2009

2009-11-19T10:49:06Z

6 Killer Google Chrome Extensions for Social Media Addicts

2009-11-18T21:24:07Z

About a year ago, Google launched Chrome, their super fast, open source web browser. Since then it has grabbed just over three and a half percent of the world’s web browser market, according to Net Applications. That’s not bad, but still puts Chrome firmly in fourth place behind Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari. One of the reasons why Chrome has been stuck in fourth place: extensions — Chrome hasn’t got them.

Or more precisely, Chrome doesn’t have them yet. At least, not officially. If you ask most Firefox fans the main reason they won’t switch to Chrome, a good majority of them will probably cite its lack of extensions. But that might change, because Chrome extensions are coming — perhaps soon. And for users of the developer’s build of Chrome, they’re already here. So for those of you brave enough to use the unstable developers release of Chrome, here are 6 extensions that social media addicts will want to install.

Where to Find Chrome Extensions

Chrome only has extensions enabled in the developer release. To get that release, you have to subscribe to the Chrome Dev Channel. Once you’ve downloaded the developer’s version of the browser, you can begin to install extensions.

For now, the best place to find and install extensions is probably from the ChromeExtensions.org directory, which offers one-click installation of extensions from its categorized listing. You can also find extensions via the ChromePlugins.org and GoogleChromePlugins.com forum communities, and via the My Chrome Addons blog.

However, Google has recently dropped hints that an official extensions gallery may be coming soon, which also indicates that support for extensions in the stable release of Chrome might be right around the corner.

Once you’ve installed some extensions, you can manage them by navigating to chrome://extensions in the address bar or clicking on ‘Extensions’ in the tools menu. Chrome extensions are still a very new animal, and Chrome’s developer build changes frequently, so be prepared for the extensions listed below to break on occasion.

6 Must-Have Social Media Extensions

1. Gmail Checker

Staying up-to-date with email is one of the most important tasks for social media fanatics, and Chrome makes that task easier for Gmail users with the Gmail Checker extension. It’s one of Google’s official sample extensions and adds an indicator icon next to the address bar in Chrome that shows you how many unread messages you have in Gmail.

The extension only works if you’re logged into Gmail, but that’s nice because it means you don’t actually have to share your password with any third-party.

2. Chromed Bird

There are a bunch of Twitter extensions for Chrome, but the best one might be Chromed Bird. It’s a fairly polished extension that lets you read and reply to tweets directly from within Chrome. It worked very well in my testing today, though you do have to share your username and password with the app (no OAuth support).

Chromed Bird’s icon changes color when you have new tweets waiting, which is a nice visual cue, but the extension has no support for @reply or DM notifications, even though it has (non-working) tabs in the UI for filtering those types of messages. In all, Chromed Bird is very barebones, but functional as a basic, in-browser Twitter client.

You should also check out Metrist, which is highly rated, but in Chinese (and I couldn’t get it to work properly).

3. Twitter Ticker

If you’re less concerned with tweeting, but would rather just stay up-to-date with tweets in your stream, then Twitter Ticker is a great extension to have. Once installed, the addon will scroll tweets in the bottom status bar of the browser as they happen. Holding your mouse over the scroll will pause it.

On its own, that’s not very impressive, but when used in tandem with Chrome Bird — which, lacks advanced tweet notifications — Twitter Ticker is definitely very useful.

4. Micro Last.fm

Micro Last.fm is a very simple set of controls for Last.fm radio. It certainly lives up to its name by offering a super tiny UI that lives in the bottom status bar in Chrome. One of the nicest things about Micro Last.fm is that it doesn’t need your login credentials — and you don’t even need to be logged into Last.fm for it to work!

The extension functions by opening up Last.fm radio in a new tab in Chrome, and then linking itself to that tab so you can control the radio station.

5. TPGoogleReader

There are a bunch of Google Reader addons for Chrome, but most just display your unread count or allow you to subscribe to feeds in Reader more easily. TPGoogleReader does a lot more than that, however. Made by the same person as Micro Last.fm, it is one of the most complete Google Reader extensions currently available for Chrome.

Perhaps its most compelling feature is that you can set it to automatically open stories in a new tab in Chrome as they come into Google Reader and mark them as read. For heavy RSS readers that might be a nightmare, but for those subscribed in Google Reader to just a handful of feeds, the feature offers a way to get news pushed to you as it happens throughout the day without ever having to actually visit Google.

Also check out Google Reader Checker, which just checks Reader for unread items, but does it in an elegant way.

6. Facebook Notification Checker

Facebook Notification Checker works just like Gmail Checker, but for Facebook. It adds an icon next to the address bar in Chrome that alerts you to new notifications in Facebook. In my testing it was a little finicky and didn’t always catch new notifications, but for avid Facebook users it will nonetheless be useful.

One of the nicest features of Facebook Notification Checker is that it doesn’t require you to give it your username and password — you just need to be logged into Facebook in order for it to work.

What other Google Chrome extensions would you recommend to social media addicts? Let us know in the comments.

Image courtesy of iStockphoto, Mike_Kiev

Reviews: Chrome, Facebook, Firefox, Gmail, Google, Google Chrome, Google Reader, Twitter, iStockphoto

Tags: addons, chrome, extensions, List, Lists

A developer's hands-on review of Delphi 2010 | Programming and Development | TechRepublic.com

2009-11-19T01:55:30Z

Announcing Microsoft Office 2010 Beta

2009-11-18T17:23:00Z

Today, we are thrilled to announce the release of the public Beta of Microsoft Office 2010! Betas for Office 2010, as well as SharePoint Server 2010, Visio 2010, and Project 2010 are available for download at www.microsoft.com/2010. This is an exciting and significant milestone for both the Office and Outlook teams, because it means that for the first time, anyone can download Office 2010! You can learn more about the complete release of the Office 2010 beta on our Office blog.

The Outlook team is particularly excited for a number of reasons – the beta release represents the latest and best version of Outlook 2010 we’ve been working on. Features that we’ve discussed on this blog in recent months – Conversation Arrangement, Quick Steps, Mail Tips, Calendar Preview, Multiple Exchange Accounts and more – are all now publicly available and accessible through the beta for anyone to try today. In addition to the features we’ve already discussed here, we’ve invested a great deal between the Technical Preview release and today’s beta around the user interface, performance, and overall fit and finish. Finally, we are introducing a great new feature today, the Outlook Social Connector.

In addition to the beta release, the Office team has also done a great deal of work to improve our online content and experience, and you can see the latest information on Office 2010 and more by visiting the newly designed Office.com.

The beta is a significant milestone in the development of Office and Outlook 2010, but we’re not done yet! Our final and official release of Office 2010 is still slated for the first half of 2010, and I encourage you to keep in touch with us on this blog to learn more as we enter the final phases of our development efforts to release Office 2010.

Finally, I’d like to personally thank everyone who has been involved with our efforts to release the beta today – in addition to the Outlook engineering team, there have been countless customers and partners who have given us invaluable feedback along the way to help make this beta what it is today. I know I speak for all of them when I say go download the beta of Office 2010 and enjoy!

Dev Balasubramanian
Outlook Product Manager

IEBlog : An Early Look At IE9 for Developers

2009-11-18T19:23:42Z

To Our Readers - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

2009-11-18T19:13:47Z

What’s New Inside Microsoft Office 2010

2009-11-18T12:19:27Z

The first public beta of Microsoft Office 2010 (v. 14.0.4536.1000) is now available for download on both MSDN and Technet.

If you are not a subscriber, don’t hit the torrents yet because Microsoft ~~may~~ announce the general availability of Office 2010 beta sometime today itself. Update: You can download Office 2010 now.

Microsoft Office 2010 – What’s New

Here’s a quick visual guide to some of the new features of Microsoft Office 2010 that you’re likely to find useful once you get access to the software.

#1. Save Office Documents to the Cloud

With Microsoft Office 2010, you can directly upload documents to your Windows Live SkyDrive account and access them from any other computer.

SkyDrive provides 25 GB of free online storage and, since the service is integrated with Office Web Apps, you can view and edit these documents anywhere in the web browser without requiring Microsoft Office (even on a Mac).

#2. Embed Web Videos in your Presentations

With Office 2010, you can easily embed video clips from the Internet into your PowerPoint presentations just the way you embed Flash videos in regular web pages. Just copy the embed code from YouTube (or any other video sharing site) and paste it anywhere on the slide.

#3. Quick Steps in Outlook

Gmail includes a useful feature called Send and Archive that performs multiple tasks. When you click this button, it will first send the reply and then archives the thread with one click.

With the new Quick Steps feature in Outlook, you can create a sequence of commands (Send & Archive is just one example) and apply them to any Outlook item with a click. For instance, here’s a quick step for "Send and Delete" which would delete the email from your inbox after you’ve replied.

#4. Built-in PDF Writer

All Office 2010 programs include a built-in PDF writer to help you save documents into the PDF format with a click. Earlier, you had to download an add-on separately but now PDF support is native.

#5. Document printing made simple!

With Office 2010, Microsoft has completely revamped the print dialog and it’s a tremendous improvement. For instance, you can tweak printer settings (like page margins, etc.) and preview the changes side-by-side.

#6. Broadcast Slideshows within PowerPoint

This is probably my favorite new feature of PowerPoint 2010. You can deliver live presentations over the web from within PowerPoint and anyone in the world can view your presentation using a web browser. It just works.

#7. Video Editing meets PowerPoint

Do you want to trim some parts of a video clip before using it in your presentation? Or do you want to apply professional styles to a video (like reflection coupled with 3D rotation) so that your audience stay glued longer? Well, that’s easy because PowerPoint 2010 now includes some very powerful video editing features.

#8. Distribute your slides as video

PowerPoint 2010 can convert your presentation into a video file that you may upload on to YouTube or distribute on a portable media player like the iPod. The video conversion happens in the background so you can continue using PowerPoint while the video is being created.

#9. Built-in Screen Capture

All Office 2010 programs now include a screen clipping utility to help you quickly capture any area of the desktop screen. The tool will automatically take screenshots of all open applications on your desktop (that are not in minimized state) and you can insert them directly into your document or presentation.

#10. Outlook gets social

When you open an email message inside Outlook 2010, it will show you related information such as email attachments, pictures, meeting requests and all previous email messages that you may have exchanged with that person (something like Xobni).

There’s a green add button that lets you "add that person to your online social networks from Outlook" but the service isn’t live yet. Until then, you can use these add-ons to make your Outlook more social.

Important: Before installing Office 2010

1. If you are installing Office 2010 beta for the first time, the default settings will upgrade your existing copy of Microsoft Office. You can however customize this setting and install Office 2010 alongside an older version of Office.

2. If you already have Office 2010 Technical Preview on your computer, make sure you completely uninstall this edition before attempting to installing Office 14 beta. In case you still have trouble installing Office, use the cleanup utility to remove all traces of the previous version of Office from your system.

What’s New Inside Microsoft Office 2010

Originally published at Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal.

Microsoft Azure is The New Outlook — jungleG

2009-11-18T05:27:29Z

Academia vs. Business

2009-11-18T00:00:00Z

Thoughtfulness 101 – Robert Scoble

2009-11-17T22:29:32Z

I have written about thoughtfulness on this blog (1, 2, 3, 4) before.

You don’t have to do groundbreaking things to be thoughtful – it can be little things but with a lot of care. Let me illustrate this with a simple example

I heard from Robert Scoble (@scobleizer) on Twitter that Loic LeMeur (CEO of Seesmic) was switching the Seesmic platfrom from Adobe Air to Microsoft Silverlight. Being a semi-geek, I was curious to know more – especially the reason for the decision to switch.

So, I sent a query to Robert to see if he could share more. Here is my tweet:

Robert responded back very quickly and here is tweet. I have met Robert several times (who has not??) and he never ceases to amaze me. May be it’s his thoughtfulness.

Take a look at the tweet from Robert. A few things to observe:

1. The dot in front of my twitter handle ensures that others in the follower stream will read this tweet.

2. Robert ensured that his response is whole and complete – meaning for his followers to understand what is going on, they don’t have to click through a series of tweets – saving them time.

3. I had mentioned Loic’s name but Robert changed that to Loic’s twitter handle – that way Loic gets a notification (if he is interested) about this conversation.

4. The name of Loic’s company was not included. Robert included that (Seesmic) so if someone was searching for Seesmic, they will see this conversation too.

5. Lastly Robert included the hashtag for the conference #pdc09 so even those that are searching for conference info will find this conversation.

Yes, it’s just one tweet and Robert has 26,000+ of those. But with care and thoughtfulness you can get a lot more leverage from that ONE tweet (for instance, this blog post)

Quick Note:

The meetup presentation on “Thought Leadership 2.0″ is tomorrow – Wednesday November 18, 2009. If you are in the bay area, I would love for you to attend. Details are below:

Silicon Valley Busines Meetup Nov 18, 2009: Thought Leadership 2.0

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Ray Ozzie is wrong about smartphone apps

2009-11-17T21:59:57Z

Microsoft exec Ray Ozzie, at a lunchtime session with bloggers at its PDC conference told the bloggers that apps won’t be a differentiating factor on smart phones.

He is wrong. Totally wrong.

Why is Mike Arrington so passionate about his Droid (we argued about it for 39 minutes on the Gillmor Gang last week and then we went to the beach together on Sunday and argued about it some more in private).

I’ve talked about this before. Most of what we argue about is apps.

Droid is better than iPhone because Droid has Google Voice, Arrington says.

iPhone is better than Droid, I say, because I have Tweetie, which kicks ass over Twidroid and the other Twitter apps.

Facebook is better on the iPhone. Noticeably better. Even Chris Brogan (who also is a Droid proponent) said that on his Twitter account.

Anyway, everything about these phones will be about the apps that run on top. Can you imagine a Microsoft exec arguing that Windows isn’t better because of apps? Give me a break. Ray, sorry, but you are off the rails.

If Ray thinks that the best apps will come to Windows Mobile and that the best developers will spend time developing for that platform well, then, Ray is drinking better Merlot than I am.

I’ve seen how even kids compare their phones on the playground. They compare apps and games. The functionality of the phone doesn’t really matter anymore. It’s what’s built on top that gets the kids excited.

Same in business. Last week a VP at Citrix came up to me showing off his iPhone app (it let him get into a Windows box somewhere else in the world and use Microsoft Office).

Even today at the PDC, what did Vivek Kundra (America’s CTO) show his app off on? Yeah, an iPhone. And this was at Microsoft’s own conference!

Ray, the truth is I was there in 2006 talking with the Windows Mobile team when they told me they were going to only build devices for the enterprise. Back then they thought the growth would come from going after RIM. Even Wired Magazine can now see the fumble the team made. They were wrong and now you are wrong. Apps are what will decide winners in this play. For now that’s Android and iPhone. Big time.

But if I were losing developers the way Microsoft is I’d probably say they don’t matter either. It just shows that Microsoft has no secret strategy up its sleeves and has no way anymore to get developers excited about its mobile platforms. Google is now in the best position and Ray knows it.

UPDATE: several commenters here (see comments on this post) say that Ray’s comments were misunderstood. I’ve talked with Steve Gillmor who recorded this lunch session (he’ll get the video up shortly) and it sounds like his comments might be more nuanced than VentureBeat presented them. Cool, let’s get into the comments.

Microsoft’s Future Lies in Software and Data

2009-11-17T19:03:48Z

Microsoft today at its developer conference in Los Angeles unveiled its Pinpoint service, which looks kind of like an app store aimed at enterprise developers and customers using Microsoft’s Azure cloud offerings, albeit one that goes beyond mere apps. It also showed off a data repository, code-named Dallas, that offers developers access to a wide variety of public and fee-based data sets with which they can build useful programs. Dallas, which can be found in the Pinpoint market, strongly resembles the service shown off this year at DEMO from Austin, Texas-based Infochimps. It was also by far the most interesting element of Microsoft’s chief software architect Ray Ozzie’s opening keynote, which highlighted what he called Redmond’s “three screens and cloud” view of the world.

If the remainder of the conference’s speaker line-up is any indication, Microsoft is embracing a world of apps and mashups to enable developers to build software that can run across mobile, PC and other device platforms. Linking all this together will be Microsoft’s Azure cloud, which will go into production Jan. 1, 2010. For more on Azure, check out our previous coverage. With Pinpoint, Microsoft is acknowledging the success of the Android Marketplace and Apple’s App Store, and trying to get developers excited about the prospect of building programs to run in Windows environments. Pinpoint also offers links to consulting services and companies that work with Microsoft.

The Dallas data store is a pretty compelling showcase “application” in the Pinpoint market, as developers could access any manner of data and build an application around it. For example, one could build an Urban Spoon-style application that uses a bunch of the available data sets to offer up evening entertainment options in the user’s local area. As Ozzie said after he emphasized all of the data now available to us in the form of government information, news, sensor networks and even web analytics, “Data does no good unless we turn it from the potential into the kinetic.”

With Dallas and Pinpoint Microsoft wants to become a company that aggregates, stores and serves up information in ways that are accessible to developers and corporate clients. On the consumer front, Microsoft has created agreements with companies like Wolfram Alpha, Facebook and Twitter for its Bing search engine as another way to surface data beyond the mere words listed on a web page. Microsoft isn’t just selling software anymore; it’s selling itself as a clearinghouse for information.

Among the other developments that have come out of the conference so far:

Seesmic, the popular Twitter client, is building a Windows client that uses Silverlight.
Matt Mullenweg Mullenwag, CEO of Automattic (Disclaimer: Automattic, maker of WordPress, is backed by True Ventures, a venture capital firm that is an investor in the parent company of this blog, Giga Omni Media. Om Malik, founder of Giga Omni Media, is also a venture partner at True), appeared onstage to say WordPress will offer access to Microsoft Azure for blogs to help handle spikes in traffic.
Azure nerds will appreciate that Microsoft will support Java, PHP, MySQL, and Eclipse in addition to .Net.
Those concerned about storing information on Microsoft’s servers after the T-Mobile Sidekick disaster should be relieved to hear that all items stored in Azure will be replicated in two data centers in each geographic region (in case a problem in one data center takes out the information there).
The Cheezburger Network has launched a new site called Oddly Specific that showcases funny signs and uses the WordPress for Azure platform.

Betaworks, Cuban Invest in Real-Time Transformer Superfeedr

2009-11-17T18:55:01Z

Superfeedr, a service that transforms a wide variety of feeds into normalized XMPP or Pubsubhubbub format, announced a seed round of funding from some very high-profile backers this morning. Betaworks, backers of Twitter, Bit.ly, Tweetdeck, Twitterfeed, Tumblr and more, and Mark Cuban, have invested in Superfeedr's parent company Notifixious.

Superfeedr offers services to both publishers and subscribers. Current marque users include SixApart, Adobe, Twitterfeed and Posterous. Notifixious founder Julien Genestoux first met Betaworks CEO John Borthwick at our event last month, the ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit.

Sponsor

Superfeedr is one of a number of real-time as a service providers, related if different competitors include Notify.me and Kaazing.

These services offer developers plug-and-play real-time publishing and subscription, allowing them to instead focus on building the features they can offer the most unique value from. "We do something stupid so you don't have to," is a slogan used on the Superfeedr website.

If there's a downside to using the service it's reliance on a third party for critical syndication functionality. Superfeedr experienced an outage for several hours earlier this month. Genestoux blogged about the problem and eventual solution on the company blog.

Genestoux says he plans to build out hardware and personnel with the backing. These relationships will also facilitate important introductions to potential customers and offer big validation of the Superfeedr service.

Superfeedr is one of ten companies profiled in the case studies section of the forthcoming ReadWriteWeb research report on the state of the real-time web market, which will be published later this month and can be pre-ordered here.

Discuss

FeedDemon 3.0.0.45: Recommendations and Faster Synchronization

2009-11-17T17:13:09Z

FeedDemon 3.0.0.45 is now available, and as you can see from the screenshot below, it now offers recommendations. Powered by Google Reader's new explore feature, FeedDemon's recommendations report shows a single view containing feeds and articles recommended for you. If you'd like more details, Digital Inspiration has a nice overview of how this feature works.

This new build also offers faster and more efficient synchronization, especially when you have a lot of synched tags or are using a slow connection.

If you have any questions or comments about this new release, please stop by the FeedDemon 3.0 Support Forum and we'll be happy to help out.

Google Chrome Feed Preview

2009-11-16T23:48:00Z

When Google Chrome launched, many people complained that the browser didn't detect feeds. Apparently, this feature has been implemented in an extension that will come preinstalled in Google Chrome.

The extension "adds a button to the URL bar when a page has a feed that can be subscribed to". When you click on the orange button, the extension previews the feed and it lets you subscribe using a feed reader.

The support for extensions is only available in Chrome's dev channel. Google will soon launch an extension directory at https://chrome.google.com/extensions and the first beta version that supports extensions will be released in early December.