Greasemonkey Script Adds In-Line Site Rendering for Google Reader

January 29, 2008

Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch!

Turns out I was completely wrong. I reported earlier today (deleted to avoid confusion) that Google Reader added some new functionality. Whoops. It was a Greasemonkey script Firefox add-on called Better GReader.

Google Reader’s engineer commented below saying I’m wrong. He’s right.

Reminds me of something I say often: how WE see the Web isn’t always how everyone sees the web.

Sorry for crying wolf.

Uncategorized

Article, feedreader, google, googlereader, greasemonkey, rss, rssreader

If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the feed to receive future articles delivered to your feed reader.

Comments

Comment by Glen Allsopp on January 29, 2008 @ 8:19 am

I’m not seeing anything like it

Comment by The Tuesday Night Tech Show on January 29, 2008 @ 8:22 am

Not working for me–the pages load the same old way they used to, into a new tab. What the heck?

Comment by Rick Mahn on January 29, 2008 @ 8:28 am

Very interesting, I’ll be looking for that today. Thanks for the tip Chris!

~Rick

Comment by David Giesberg on January 29, 2008 @ 8:50 am

I have not seen that yet either, must be a staggered deployment like when GMail adds features…

Comment by Pat on January 29, 2008 @ 8:51 am

I was excited when I read your post and then went back to my google reader, but it is doing the same as it always has. I then went to settings and any other tab I could think of because I thought maybe I had to set it that way. Never did find anything to reset. Maybe you were just the lucky one to get this.

Comment by Mike Reynolds on January 29, 2008 @ 9:00 am

Might be some sort of Google test.

Comment by Mihai Parparita on January 29, 2008 @ 10:01 am

Sorry to disappoint, but we haven’t rolled out any such features. Are you sure you’re not running any Greasemonkey scripts or Firefox extensions (like Better GReader) that add such “preview” features?

Mihai Parparita
Google Reader Engineer

Pingback by Turulcsirip - Benke Zsolt on January 29, 2008 @ 10:35 am

[…] ti észrevettetek valamit? http://chrisbrogan.com/google-reader-adds-in-line-site-rendering/ « előző | Benke Zsolt — 2008. 01. 29. […]

Comment by Jamie on January 29, 2008 @ 10:36 am

Man. You sure got my hopes up.

Trackback by Media Bullseye on January 29, 2008 @ 11:02 am

Putting Social Media to Work Internally…

You’ve probably thought about how you can use social media tools to communicate with the public, but don’t overlook the value of deploying them internally for your organization….

Comment by Susan on January 30, 2008 @ 9:52 am

Chris, I’ve got greasemonkey, and I installed that plugin, and it worked GREAT! I LOVE it! Thank you for sharing! :D