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... of Google Reader, I now see an item that says Friends shared items.
Theres now a profile that you can share with your readers. Youll see that profile when you click on Your shared items.

These features are largely unfinished and unpolished. Heres my feedback for the team:

1. Why isnt my profile shared on my link blog? (NEVERMIND: that feature just got turned on!)
2. The Friends shared items needs to be able to display the profile when you mouse over names. The list thats presented is nearly useless. Aside: Im still adding friends at scobleizer@gmail.com
3. When you click Manage friends it sure would be nice to see what kinds of things each person has already shared. We cant. All we can see is if theyve shared anything or not. Thats not very helpful. If someone shares porn, I dont want to friend them and pollute my feeds.
4. We really need to be able to add our own tags on top of each friend.
5. Im still getting duplication in the Friends shared items feed.
6. Things seem slow, thats not what Im used to with Google stuff. Did you test the scalability here? I bet none of the developers on the team have hundreds of friends cause the UI falls apart and so does the performance of the friends page.
7. A LOT more people are sharing feeds than I expected to, which is cool, but means more features/filtering needed.
8. I dont think its a privacy problem because its pretty clear to me that when you share something it goes into public view, but some of my friends REALLY disagree. So, that tells me you have, at minimum, a perception/expectation problem and probably have some rethinking to do as you add new features that take advantage of the public shared items capabilities.
9. I want to be able to hide items from people right from the Friends shared items view.
10. Theres not a payoff for people yet to enter their profile information: out of hundreds of Google Reader friends only a handful had filled in much information (UPDATE: Now that profiles show up on the shared items page, the payoff is increasing). If this is how Google is going to take on Facebook its a failure so far.
11. All these new features make me wish I had some way to lay things out for my readers in a hierarchy. Sort of like TechMeme does.
12. The flow is incredible from just the friends Ive already added (there were 880 items waiting for me tonight). It sure would be nice to see a heres the 40 most popular items from your friends page.
13. It would be nice for me to have two shared items pages that you could see: 1. the one I already do. 2. the one my friends do (they are darn good at picking news " better, even, than TechMeme or Digg!)
14. While Im at it, Id love to add a comment onto each item so I could tell you why I thought it was important.

Google does deserve some kudos, though, because it was very easy to add links to its competitors. I added a link to Twitter, Facebook, and a variety of other social networking services " I wish I could do the same from Facebook.

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