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Google Reader now reports feed subscriber numbers, offers Publisher Tips page
As of this morning, however, the Official Google Reader Blog has changed all of that. In fact, the gReader team has not only enabled their crawler to report an actual number of feed subscribers, that number also includes users who are simply subscribed to a feed via Google Homepage.
Not content to stop at mere numbers, the Google Reader team have also created a Tips for Publishers page that offers ideas for best practices, feed implementation, feed "auto-discovery" and even a few catches to look out for.
It might not have been the much-requested search update that gReader users are salivating for, but these new features should certainly put a smile on most publishers' faces.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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Marc said 7:02PM on 2-16-2007
I think that's a bit disingenuous of Google to suggest that the number of subscribers appeals only to publishers, not to readers. I use the number of subscribers as a means to gauge a feed's popularity relative to similar sites.
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