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They didn’t realize Facebook might give their friends such easy access to see their behavior. Probably the most successful example of that is when Facebook introduced a “news feed” page last year, where you could see all of your Facebook friends’ most recent activity on the site (adding friends, joining groups, etc.). This is how a company builds trust with users and mitigates user backlash when daring new features are released. The key is to ask some sort of permission to share, first. These are suggestions for the Reader team. Or from building a complementary application for Reader users within Facebook ( which this independent developer has already done). There’s also nothing stopping Reader from using Facebook’s developer platform to access the social data on Facebook from within its own site. This is the sort of option I’d like to see, instead of having any chatter recipient “automatically subscribed” to my shared items. Like all Facebook applications, if you want to invite people to use it with you, you need to select individuals who are already your Facebook friends (see screenshot). Interestingly, Google has another news-sharing application already available - a third-party Facebook application. Apparently, any competitor who I chat with in Gmail, who then starts using Reader, will still be getting automatic access to my “shared” feeds. As you can see from the screenshot I just took from Reader, below, the team still isn’t getting the memo. Here’s the point: Don’t tell me who my friends are, ask me who my friends are - after that, we can talk about what to share publicly or not. The Google Reader team replied, yesterday, with an official blog post explaining ways you could make shared items private. If you chat with someone through Gtalk, the Google instant message service embedded in Gmail, Reader assumes that person is your “friend.” Then, within Reader, you and that person automatically get to see each others’ “shared” feed items. The new “friends” feature, however, makes this information far more public. “Shared” items would also be automatically and publicly available at an obscure URL that nobody would ever find unless you specifically told them about it these URLs were not indexed by Google search. First, here’s a specific description of how Reader works.īefore the addition of the “friends” feature, if you marked an item as “shared” you could email it to people via Gmail or post it on a blog. Of course, there are other interesting possibilities, like building a Google Reader application that lives within these social networks, that shows your shared feeds to your friends. Then you could invite these people in to your friends in Reader. Google Reader should let you automatically find friends on Myspace, Bebo, Hi5 and other social networks, who are also using Google Reader.
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This is where Open Social, its software developer platform for third parties ( our coverage), should come in. The significance is that the “social” data Google has about person-to-person interactions in its applications may not be nearly as valuable as the social data contained in other social networks. But this past week, more fuses have been blowing, as Google Reader users discover that business competitors, politically sensitive relatives, ex-lovers, and others are getting access to items that Google Reader users think they’re sharing with selected confidantes. At the time, a couple of others wondered about the move.
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