The buzz among the technophile blogosphere is that Google could easily and effectively put “a hurtin’” on Digg by tweaking Google Reader. An algorithm and, perhaps, buying out a social news site might be all that is needed.

Anyone notice this? It seems that I can read faster than Google Reader can mark as read. At least it isn’t very good about marking things as read.

If you’re looking to get some insights into the mind of a Googler, this video interview with the Google Reader team is a fun one to watch. It’s with Nick Baum and Jason Shellen.

I have been keeping up with my Feed Reading lately and posting the best stuff to my link blog. I’ll be honest, I wasn’t reading as many feeds lately because it just wasn’t fun.

Kevin Burton released a new TailRank. Last week I asked the audience at ConvergeSouth how many people even knew about TechMeme. Very few hands went up.

Gmail has become pretty much omnipresent in its popularity, and Google Reader also received positive reviews after its last round of tweaks. Now, Mihai Parparita, a member of the Google Reader team, has combined the two. Users of his Greasemonkey script will be able to receive feeds in Gmail.

Nothing is more frustrating than being inundated with information from the blogging community when you are clueless as how to manage all these content especially the ones you are interested in.

Google has made some significant upgrades to its Google Reader RSS aggregator platform. As TechCrunch explains…

Catching up with RSS or Atom feeds can be as simple as flipping open the phone and launching one’s Google Personalized Homepage.

Over at the Google Reader blog, they’ve announced support for your cell phone of choice.

Users of Google’s Personalized Homepage can add their reading lists from Google Reader as a module and view their feeds from the Homepage instead.

Google Reader has a new feature: You can share your starred items, or any label, with others, or you can show them in a widget on your blog.

A pair of Google’s products recently received tweaks to make them more useful to their users, with the ability to share lists from Google Reader, and enterprise and new language options for Google Desktop.