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Making The Atom Feed For A Tag in Google Reader Public

Google recently changed it’s sharing functionality in Google Reader to share exclusively with Google+. As part of this change starred and tagged items changed too. Specifically the behavior of their associated ATOM feeds have. The feeds still exist and work in the same way but you no longer have the option to make them public. [...]


Why Is This Person Following Me on Google+?: A Suggestion

If you’re like me and on Google+ odds are you have people who have added you to their circles that you don’t know. I actually don’t mind if people I don’t know add me to their circles (Twitter has desensitized me to this) but I don’t want to share certain personal information with them. One [...]


Tweeting to Google Buzz

Earlier this week Google introduced Google Buzz. Buzz is a way to make GMail a bit more than just a cool email engine. It’s Google’s way of making it more like a social network. You can see other people’s Buzz statuses and comment on them. Buzz is tightly integrated with in the GMail design. Just [...]


Why I Dropped GoogleVoice Voicemail

A few days ago I wrote about my first impressions of GoogleVoice. Now I have stopped using it. Here’s why. My first annoyance was with the dial in service. When you call to hear your messages you only have access to new messages. Saved messages cannot be heard when calling in. The only way to [...]


Google Voice First Impressions

After months (literally) of trying to get in I finally got a Google Voice account the other day. It seems like there are mixed results in getting a Google Voice account by request. Some people get it in minutes, others in days and others never get it at all. You can put me in the [...]