Sometimes when Google updates one of their apps it takes a few days for the significance of the new functionality to sink in. Please note the little “Shared Links” badge over in the right column of this site. It automatically pulls items from my “Shared” feed over at Google Reader. Also note the “links for 2008-05-05″ posts that appear on this page from time to time. These are automatically pulled from my del.icio.us feed via some wanky script that runs every morning at 4am.
Now Google Reader has always been a pretty sweet RSS aggregator, but I never got much out of the sharing functionality on there, mainly because the only thing I could “share” were specific RSS feed items e.g. individual blog posts. Furthermore, I already had to be *subscribed* to the blog in question before I could share it. The del.icio.us script on the other hand could share anything with a URL… Blog posts, Entire sites, links to specific img links and so on. The script for sharing these links, as I mentioned, was a little wanky, but the broad functionality made using it worthwhile. Recently, Google quietly slipped a “Notes” tool into Reader which mirrors the del.icio.us functionality, as well as letting me post links to (get this) nothing! (a.k.a. Facebook “status” updates).
So anyway, if you would do me the favor of occasionally directing your attention to the small grey box to your right, then I can discontinue the use of the del.icio.us “links for today” script, and theoretically del.icio.us itself. (Or more likely I can go back to using del.icio.us for keeping track of links that I *don’t* see any need to wave around in people’s faces, at least until Google de-suck-ifies and/or integrates their Notebook app into Reader anyway! =P)
[Addendum] If you would like to see some additional context & any associated audio/video assets for my “Shared Links” and/or you like cartoon pictures of ninjas, then by all means check out the full-page interface for my Google Reader shared items page (which is also accessible by clicking “Read more…” on the badge).
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