I am not a fan of open letters, but when the intended recipient hides behind layers of so-called “Help” forums, what can be done?
Dear Google,
I wish I could contact you directly, but you don’t seem to want any direct feedback from your users. If you did, you would post a conspicuous “contact us” link somewhere. No thanks, I’m not interested in going to user’s forum and complaining to strangers who are not the cause of my problem and can do nothing for me. I want you, because you threw the monkey wrench in the works. I want you to fix it.
Google+ is a good idea. The circles make it what Facebook is not, a social medium that recognizes that not everyone I know is my friend, that friends and family do not share exactly the same space, and there are things I would like to share with one group (or individual) that I wouldn’t share with everyone else. But you’ve really screwed up with your attempt to herd your users into the Google+ corral and close the gate. I refer to the removal of the “share” button from Google Reader. Now, I’m supposed to “+1” links I want to share, to be seen only by Google+ users. That doesn’t work for me.
Since the beginning of this blog, I have shared links in the sidebar (front page). This has been a key feature of this site. About two and a half years ago, I discovered a widget that allowed me to put my Google Reader Shared Items there. That was a great discovery, because it allowed one-click sharing and saved a lot of valuable time. I won’t be going back to the old way of manually linking. It’s just too time-consuming. So, unless I can find another way to do what you used to do, that part of this site is dead.
Thanks a lot.
David Kjos
Now, if any of you smart folks know of any solutions to this problem, I’m all ears.
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#1 || 11·11·03··09:11 || rebecca
So that's what happened to your links! I'm bummed. You had some interesting stuff linked.
#2 || 11·11·03··09:39 || Daisy
I completely agree. I hope Google changes its mind because I cannot stand the new Google Reader.
#3 || 11·11·03··16:13 || David Kjos
Twitter might do it. We’ll see.
#4 || 11·11·04··05:34 || Scott Ashby
Del.ici.ous will allow categorized bookmarking which will kick off an RSS feed that you can dump into Feedburner and create a set of "annotated bookmarks."