Track Page Changes Using Google Reader

Google Reader allows tracking of page changes. Simply add a URL to Google Reader and it automatically detects a feed or, if the site doesn’t have one, Reader will auto-create. Application site: https://reader.google.com/ Prerequisite: Google account Process time: 1 minute. Steps: Step- 1. Go to application site. Step- 2. Log in your Google account. Step- [...]

15 Apps That Use Google Gears

15 applications (and counting) that use Google Gears. By Raju Vegesna via Zoho Creator. Zoho Mail Zoho Writer Zoho Mobile WordPress Remember the Milk PassPack MySpace Google Reader Google Docs Buxfer Autodesk’s Draw MindMeister Picasa Web Albums Mobile Paymo Gmail

Google Reader gets even faster with new features

These are the new updates made by Google Reader: New Look and Feel Collapsible Navigation Friends Sharing Section Hide Unread Counts New Feed Bundles Read full story here.

Happy Thanksgiving!

A big and warm thank you to all the readers and friends and members of TechBays!  And thanks to the following apps: WordPress. The home of TechBays.  Ning, for allowing us to create a community for TechBays readers.  Gmail, for innovating and integrating continuously, now with video chat.  Facebook, for finding and proposing long lost [...]

The New Look of iGoogle with Canvas View

This is the new face of iGoogle.  And the Canvas view of Google Reader. A full list of what’s canvas-available is here. 

Blogger adds Following feature

In a step to make Google’s services more social, Google Blogger now has a Following feature that allows you to show who are following your blog as well as the blogs you are following. It’s like subscribing to a blog with a feature that can explicitly display you as a follower of the blog you [...]

A note on a note on a note, Google Reader style

Google Reader adds a new feature that allows you to add a note when sharing news items to friends and again allows you to add another note, an editorial one for example, by editing the shared item itself. The Note function reminds me of Google Notebook, which I used initially with interest but not anymore [...]

From Disqus to Google Reader to Friendfeed and vice versa

Your data now flow from a comment system to an RSS reader to a multi-feed-type aggregator; Or from an RSS reader to a comment system to a multi-feed-type aggregator; Or the reverse, or whichever way you like. Let’s welcome ourselves to the growing integration of online conversation systems. GReader, a Firefox extension, now allows posting [...]

Who generates the most news items per day?

This is based on the Subscription trends function of Google Reader and the list of my subscription for the last 30 days. Mashable and Valleywag issues about 22.8 posts per day. Techcrunch about 13.9. Robert Scoble’s Shared Reader about 6.2, while his Scobleizer about 2.1. Dave Winer about 2.6. Fred Wilson about 2.3. Rex Hammock [...]

Activate Google Reader Offline

I tested Google Reader Offline function and it works well. You are required to install Google Gears to make the offline function work. It is an add-on to your browser. In my case, I initially used Firefox but when I tried to run the Google Gears executable file, my browser issues non-compatibility message. My current [...]