Google Reader, the popular RSS reader has announced a few cool improvements/enhancements to it’s mobile interface.
Did anyone already notice these tweaks being made to Reader’s mobile interface recently?
- Google has brought over a few more features from the desktop version of Reader: magic ranking and search. Both can be found in the option drop-down menu.
- Google has made the titles of items be links to the original page
- The top of each item now has “collapse” and ”next item” links.
Last week, Facebook overtook Google as the most visited website in the United States, according to web metrics firm Experian Hitwise. All told, for the week ending March 13th, Facebook received 7% of all U.S. internet traffic and together with Google, accounted for nearly 15% of the total web traffic.
Even more impressive, Facebook’s traffic was up 185% year over year for that week. Google, for the record, was up 9% year over year for the week.
Are we friends on Facebook? If not, and you would like to…friend me.
A recent report covered on cnnmoney.com says that an astounding (to me anyway) 73% of registered Twitter accounts have tweeted fewer than ten times ever.
This seems to suggest that these users are using Twitter more as a feed reader or news aggregator than a social network.
This has at least one researcher worried about Twitter’s long term growth potential. Paul Judge, who is the chief research officer at Barracuda Networks and author of this report, says that this indicates to him that most Twitter users “came online to follow their favorite celebrities, not to interact with their buddies the way they would on Facebook or MySpace,” .
He goes on to say ”The bottom line is, most of these people are getting online because Ashton asked them to,” Judge said. “If those people do nothing after that, [Twitter's] growth can’t hope to continue.”
I am not sure I agree with Mr. Judge’s conclusions, but I do think Twitter can definitely be a one way stream of information, and a good one, if that is what you want it to be. After all, Twitter has broken news on more than one well-documented occasion.
In my opinion, part of the appeal of Twitter is the way each user can adapt it to suit their own needs…whatever those are. And if Twitter ever fails or goes away (self destructs?), something else will take its place.
What about you…agree or disagree with Mr. Judge?
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