Google Reader Improves Social Aspect Through New Sharing Features

This evening, Google launched a new feature for the Reader users: enhanced sharing. This involves a few more tools that could help make Google Reader your information center:

1. Sharing with Notes. You can now add notes to each item you share. Anyone who subscribes to your shared items will see your notes. However, it is not known yet if these notes are searchable.
2. Sharing any page on the web. This is good stab at del.icio.us. Now you can use a bookmartlet to share any page as you stumble upon it. You can even add notes, just like a del.icio.us post.

I live by my Google Reader. I now have the ability to now track the same tags I use for RSS feeds with the tags I use for bookmarking. If only there was a way to import my del.icio.us links into Google Reader. Unfortunately, not everyone is loving the new updates.

If you are using Google Reader and you share links, add me as a GTalk user so I can see your shared items. For those interested in mine, you can find the feed at: http://www.google.com/reader/shared/02512947381665535926?hl=en. You can also add me to your GTalk (seth007).