![]() ![]() Summer of 2006: As part of Brad Hawkes's summer internship, he looks into what can be done to make shared tags more discoverable (right now users have to email each other URLs with 20-digit long URLs). A lot of users end up sharing their starred items instead, since that enables one-click sharing. On the other hand, having to create a tag, share it and manually apply it each time is rather tedious. On one hand, tag sharing is quite flexible: you can share both individual items by applying a tag to them, and whole feeds (creating spliced streams) if you share folders. March 2006: Tag sharing launches, along with the ability to embed a shared tag as a widget in the sidebar of your blog or other sites. October 2005: A remnant of the "People" tab is present in the HTML of the launched version of Google Reader, and an eagle-eyed Google Blogoscoped forum member notices it and speculates as to its intended use. There are no complex ACLs, just a single boolean that controls whether a tag is world-readable. September 2005: Ben Darnell and Laurence Gonsalves add the concept of "public tags" to the nascent Reader backend and frontend. There's no concept of a managed friends list, after all when the users are just a few dozen co-workers, we're all friends, right? Among other neat features, it has a "People" tab that shows you what other people on the system are subscribed to and reading. Late 2004 to early 2005: Chris Wetherell starts work on "Fusion", one of the 20% projects that serve as prototypes for Google Reader. ![]() For those of you who are new here, I was Reader's tech lead from 2006 to 2010. With the upcoming transition of social features in Google Reader to Google+, I thought this would be a good time to look back at the notable social-related events in Reader's history.
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