Awakened Voice

The announcement of Google Gears doesn’t mean a whole lot to me in and of itself. But this new platform that’s being promoted by Google has already been used by their team to create something I’ve been wanting for a long time.
I now have the ability to cache feed content from my Google Reader to [...]

Neville Hobson has done an analysis of his RSS feed subscriber stats since Google started reporting statistics on subscribers via Google’s Reader and Home Page services.
He concludes that Google Reader, ” is making its mark as an RSS aggregator.” He sees a larger percentage of subscribers now using Google tools as opposed to other popular [...]

The world of social media changes pretty quickly. Shortly after I posted a lesson over in the Awakened Voice Learning Center on Google Reader, the team released some major updates to the interface. The result was a new and improved RSS reader.
So I finally got around to taking another spin through the updated interface, which [...]

I find myself using a suite of mobile Google applications on my Nokia 6620 phone more and more these days. In fact, last night the Google Maps Mobile helped me get around San Francisco in a pinch.
The mobile version of Google Maps is a better alternative to a paper map in my opinion. No need [...]

There’s no doubt that some aspects of social media are moving very fast. New and updated tools, products and services are coming at us on a daily basis. So I should not have been surprised when I opened up Google Reader yesterday to find a completely new interface and a host of new features.
Google’s upgrade [...]

If you get a few moments head over to the Learning Center to have a look at a tutorial on managing RSS feeds with Google Reader.
The Google Reader tool was barely acceptable as an RSS reader when it was first launched but the folks at Google have continued to upgrade the service, making Google Reader [...]

I’ve been doing some research on the best way to consume RSS feeds on a mobile device. Dave Winer’s New York Times River is great but you only get summaries of the stories and when you click through it takes you to the NY Times regular website.
Dave has also taken a few select blogs and [...]