Comments on: Google Reader Suggest ‘Feed Bundles’ to Users

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 06:39:10 +0000

The photography bundle doesn’t seem like it features the highest-ranking or best stuff–and I’m not just saying that because I am dying to know how to get my photo blog in it. OK, maybe I am, but still…

By: syahid ali

syahid ali — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 07:51:30 +0000

i don’t sign in for bundles. it will only clutter my *already* cluttered, oversized google reader. btw, think that it is good for new users of google reader though.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:03:13 +0000

I think Google keep it under wraps when it comes to being added to a bundle.

Can you imagine how many people would want to be a part of these bundles?

By: Tim Broder

Tim Broder — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:25:03 +0000

This isn’t knew. This rolled out with reader when you clicked add a feed and then browse, a list similar to this was displayed. I still have the Technology group in my reader though I rarely have time to peruse it

By: Richard Rinyai

Richard Rinyai — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:47:41 +0000

Hi Everyone,

I was able to find the “API” code through the google reader, but not sure what this is or how to use it for my blog.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Richard

By: Beth Robinson

Beth Robinson — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:56:29 +0000

I know when I first started using FeedReader that I added a couple bundles, I pruned the feeds later, but it was how I found a couple of blogs that I still read regularly.

User created feed bundles would definitely be cool and interactive, but at the time I was just thrilled to have an introduction to an area that I didn’t have to think about from an “authority”. I doubt I would have searched through user bundles. I might now, though, to find good reads I’m missing.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:49:12 +0000

I have written about Techcrunch onsite traffic compared to feed subscribers in the past. They benefit from new “subscribers” for almost every single RSS reader that tests something new. Based on their traffic I doubt they actually have more than 100-150K real subscribers.

Another example of how out of skew it can get is John Battelle
http://battellemedia.com/archives/003383.php

That was back in February, but even then Netvibes was much bigger than Rojo, yet not in John’s stats which show Rojo totally out of proportion.

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:49:29 +0000

phil – good suggestions!

By: Jared Schwager

Jared Schwager — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:48:39 +0000

Unfortunately, this has been around for quite a while. Sorry Darren.

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:35:29 +0000

Yeah, this is an old feature, I remember seeing it when I started using Google Reader.

What would be interesting is if users could suggest their own bundles for other categories that haven’t been covered (or alternatives for the ones that are there). I’m not saying I’d suggest myself, but I’d like to see what other people thought were top Web Development blogs or Making Money blogs in your case, Darren.

The other thing that I’m waiting for is the automatic suggestion feature, where Google suggests more feeds based on the ones you already read.

By: Amrit Hallan - HowToPlaza

Amrit Hallan - HowToPlaza — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:33:39 +0000

I think there will be some system of automatically including the feeds otherwise Google will be deluged with millions of requests.

By: bob cobb

bob cobb — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:28:14 +0000

Wow, I would kill to be in a bundle

By: Neil Duckett

Neil Duckett — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:00:02 +0000

Where`s the `Health` bundle …. babymoon.com.au misses out again. ;>)

By: Netvalar

Netvalar — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:12:36 +0000

It must be something they do randomly as I don’t have one in my google reader.

@Alex I didn’t know that about feedburner it would be great to use a feed bundle instead of blogrolls for similar blogs.

By: Vik Dulat - Making Money the Easy Way

Vik Dulat - Making Money the Easy Way — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:11:53 +0000

Hmmm….let me see which feed bundles I can use

By: Nuts & Milk

Nuts & Milk — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:08:41 +0000

Yeah!
They’re always available when you click on ‘Browse’ button

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:05:46 +0000

hmmm – must be something that they are rolling out again and promoting to older readers as it just appeared in my Google Reader today when I logged in. It seemed familiar – but also different. They must be just promoting it again.

By: Nuts & Milk

Nuts & Milk — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:56:02 +0000

Well this is a pretty old feature!!

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:48:08 +0000

FeedBurner is slowly introducing user-managed feed networks, but I believe they are still in beta. Letting us create and manage feed bundles makes much more sense.

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:41:41 +0000

Hey there !
I am searching for the bundles, googled it and finally came back to your blog again ;) But I couldn’t find a way to access the bundles, have no url or directory … Could you implement one ? Would be great, Darren. Greetings from Germany –
Martin