Many people have a lot of information just sitting there on Google's servers including personal appointments (Calendar), correspondence (Gmail), work and personal documents (Google Docs) and online reading habits (Google Reader).

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The Associated Press said on Monday that it will demand that Web sites obtain permission to use the work of The A.P. or its member newspapers, and share revenue with the news organizations, and that it will take legal action those that do not.

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Google just made the world a slightly smaller place today. They've added a feature to their highly popular Google Reader that will auto-translate any site with a feed to your native tongue. Not only that, it's very easy to use and it works really well.

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Users who hadn't already left Bloglines for Google Reader and other functional RSS readers are doing so now, largely because Bloglines has stopped working and the company has done absolutely nothing to communicate to users what is going on or when it might be fixed.

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For those readers who use Google Reader as their news feed aggregator then you will love this new AIR application. It has the same basic UI layout that the web based reader has so you can really jump straight in and start using it.

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RSS is a big deal, as anyone who's subscribed to even a few feeds probably knows. Once you get past just a few feeds, though, it can quickly get overwhelming. RSS can leave you feeling inadequate, brain-dead and uninspired.

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I'm really into RSS — a RSS power user may be an appropriate title since I grab every RSS opportunity to make my life easier and maximise my ability to interact effectively with others.

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I have been using various RSS readers for nearly five years now - I've tried them all. However, none matches the power of Google Reader. I have found that if you tap into all of its features, it's the Holy Grail of Personal Knowledge Management.

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For New 'Viners: How to Seed Newsvine Effectively

Although Newsvine offers some excellent original content, there are many great news and analysis pieces across the web that we'd like to discuss. These gems, though, can be hidden in the muck of the web.

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The Poor Man's Software Review: NetNewsWire

Nobody's ever called me rich before and I have no shame recognizing that I generally dont find myself paying for software applications.

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Among the many responses to yesterday's announcement about FeedDemon being free, I spotted a number of people asking why anyone would use a desktop RSS reader.  These comments generally focused on two points:

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As each day Google hoards more of your data there is an implicit deal that makes this possible: You give Google your private data, while they keep it private. That deal would fail miserably is someday Google decided unilaterally to share your data with more people.

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Several bloggers and users have sounded the alarm about this, with some justification.

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Google Reader now shows a list of recommended feeds in the new Discover section. The list is generated by looking at the subscribed feeds from other people that have similar interests with you.

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So how do YOU use the web?! Your favorite newsreaders, browsers, search engines, websites, etc.

Ok, I've been thinking of this for awhile now. I've been on Newsvine since the beta, what, 2 years now?! And Newsvine has been terrific, addictive and in many ways it has taken over my life.

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Google may have lost the bidding war to invest in Facebook, but it is preparing its own major assault on the social networking scene. It goes by the codename "Maka-Maka" inside the Googleplex (or, perhaps, "Makamaka").

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So Google recently made it fairly easy to determine the number of Google Reader subscribers around a particular blog.

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Out with Google Search, In with the New!

These days I find myself using less and less of the traditional Google search and more of other search engines.  No, I'm not talking about Mahalo or some new semantic search engine.  These other searches I use help me search a sub-community of the internet and hopefully …

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Steve Rubel writes a compelling piece about Google Reader's new search functionality - and how to use it to stalk, er, data mine information from other users' feeds. There is some interesting potential here, especially in automating these functions.

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Google is going after Facebook.

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It took them long enough! Back in January I came up with five things that I'd like to see on Google Reader. 9 months later, they have added one of them. I guess that's not too bad of a job considering they knocked out the largest item.

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Google Reader users can now search through their subscriptions for specific items using keywords. The item count has been increased from 100 to 1000.

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Google has finally added the long-awaited search box to their popular web-based RSS reader, Google Reader. Now you can search across all of your subscribed feeds as a whole, or more granularly across tags or even individual subscriptions.

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As mentioned in the previous post, Google Reader is now mature. But how could it mature be without having a search feature? The wait is over: Google Reader finally added search.

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I noticed a general update of the Google Reader UI this morning.

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