Google Reader Share
The morning Google actually made the switch to the new UI and +1 feature, I had the whole day free. Thank God for that ! I quickly went through the sharing options and found out the ugly truth: no more sharing. I just couldn’t live with it and I knew how to recreate it, and so did I.
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The word “share” is everywhere now, but gReader’s share had something else. It was not a social share as those guys at Google and Facebook seem to understand it now. It was an open sharing. You did not need to log into some fancy social network with tons of options, where “friends” would be waiting for you to talk in real-time and everything… It was like.. more peaceful. But now they want you on their network. They don’t want you to use standard and open ways to share stuff. I think they’re wrong, and it seems I’m not the only one.
My point in making this plugin is that the share feature should be OPEN and STANDARD. I’m willing to gather a community and define a standard way to share items (anything) via bookmarklet or even a new sharing button in ALL reader apps ! Just like you can tweet any link, you could share any feed item.
Seeing such a terrible update on one of my favorite webapp, I got mad. I spent the whole day coding the damn feature. Short note on the dev part, I insert script tags in gReader’s DOM and use JSONP to talk to lipsumarium.com’s server. And it just worked ! Now the hardest part is coming…
How to tell millions of deceived gReader users the battle is not over ? That we can work together, without Google, to actually have an open way to share, keep using gReader and have friend lists. I’m working hard on Twitter to get the word out. It is crucial that gReader users know about it. So if you can help spreading the news, please do.
Google made a very bad choice here. That’s not how the web should be (notice usually *they* say that), thats why I made it and will continue to enhance it. I host it on lipsumarium.com but somehow temporarily, as if the project get tons of users I’ll need to scale the thing up. But I deeply believe that if a community grows around this project, I’ll find great people to help me with this. I’m not willing to build this project on my own, it should be community driven. The share spirit, well, you got it.
So try it, report any bugs or weirdness and share your ideas for a better sharing web.
Gosh, I say that and I have a Facebook Like widget… But yeah… It helps to share too. But count on the return of the mighty gReader bookmarklet ! and share anything on reader like before
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Je viens de retenter ton plugin, il s’est installé, mais je ne vois aucune différence
C’est très important que je sache pourquoi, merci de dire que ça bug ! Tout d’abord, tu es sou windows/mac ? Quel browser et quelle version ?
Windows Seven 64bits – Google Chrome 15 (dernière stable release actuellement)
Ok, je boot ma virtual machine et je teste ça.
on peut utiliser gtalk si tu le souhaites, mail moi à l’adresse utilisée ici un mail de contact et je te reprends via chat.
Bonjour et merci !!
Vous venez de régler un problème gênant sur l’un de mes outils de travail !
Juste une question : y a-t-il possibilité d’annuler le partage d’un article ?
Je n’ai pas trouvé de bouton “unshare” ou quelque chose de ce gout là.
Merci et à bientôt,
La fonctionnalité de “unshare” n’est pas encore implémentée. Mais merci pour la suggestion, nous allons y penser.
Merci de soutenir ce projet.
Merci pour le plugin
, je cherchais déjà une alternative à Google Reader. J’essaierai un peu plus tard.
Merci pour ce plugin
Par contre, comment retrouver l’adresse de la liste de partage associé à notre compte?
Le plugin va bientôt insérer “My shared items” ou “My shares” dans la colonne de gauche. Merci du conseil
Tiens, reader s’est fait mettre à jour, on a droit à un icone G+ rouge et le retour de la ligne “partager”
Ah ? Je ne vois aucun changement. Mais Google ne met pas tout le monde à jour en même temps. Ce retour serait inespéré, c’est une nouvelle que nous attendons tous ! Sûr que ce n’est pas un plugin qui le rajoute ? Capture d’écran (par mail) ?
[...] of those disappointed users was Web developer Emmanuel Pire. Not content to see the beloved sharing feature go away, Pire built a replica of it on his own [...]
[...] of those disappointed users was Web developer Emmanuel Pire. Not content to see the beloved sharing feature go away, Pire built a replica of it on his own [...]
Hey, great work. Is there a public RSS feed that would allow me to feed shared items to other RSS based services?
[...] of those disappointed users was Web developer Emmanuel Pire. Not content to see the beloved sharing feature go away, Pire built a replica of it on his own [...]
Sure ! That’s the whole point ! Your feed currently hosted at lipsumarium is as following: http://lipsumarium.com/greader/feed?_USER_ID=xxxxxx where xxx is your google user ID. Tomorrow (europe) you will see a new feed in your google reader which will be you public feed. Follow the big discussion about a new open way to share with any reader app on sharebro.org
[...] of those disappointed users was Web developer Emmanuel Pire. Not content to see the beloved sharing feature go away, Pire built a replica of it on his own [...]
THANK YOU!
Losing my community of sharebros was like losing a limb.
One question – the RSS feed that’s being generated won’t validate. And hence, I can’t feed it into other tools I use to keep my blog powered by shared items (I make it very clear, only use synopsis and have actually reached out to the content owners).
Any chance you could take a stab at validating the feed? I’d love to support you with a bit of cash for your time, too.
–UPDATE: feeds are now valid. yay!
Ok. I used to use the bookmarklet and the main reason was that I could select any section of a webpage and share only that. This would create its own webpage with all my shares. This was the page my readers would visit. Any chance to get that back?
The next 2 features I have in mind are: 1: bookmarklet; 2: Share with note.
I didn’t work on this project recently since I thought it was a good replacement enough until Hivemined (or other) comes up with a fully fledged reader app with fancy features.
But I have to say it is taking some time !
I’m happy to hear such requests, and indeed i miss the bookmarklet a lot too.
So.. I’m thinking next time I have free time I’ll probably get into it. Stay tuned (RSS) for more in the coming weeks.
hey, great plugin. I installed this like a couple of months ago. But i sort of forgot the password now ..
so i cant use the share button. any idea how to retrieve a forgotten password. thanks a bunch
I’ll contact you by email for the technical details.
To any other having the same issue, send me a message, I’ll be happy to help you !