Comments on: Tweak Google Reader iPhone Edition in Your Firefox Sidebar

By: Rich Owings

Rich Owings — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:08:24 +0000

Anyway to tweak it to auto-refresh?

By: Mattias

Mattias — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:30:03 +0000

I had a issue that if you scroll down in the list of mails, it automatically jumps back to the top. It turns out that one line of javascripts needs to disabled to solve this. I made a GreaseMonkey script that removed “window.scrollTo(0,1)” from the following line:
N.prototype.$=function(a,b){var c=a||window.orientation||0;this.bb=c;var d=this.j(this.h);if(c==0){d.style.width=”320px”;b&&_IframeEmbeddedExecution&&window.scrollTo(0,1)}else d.style.width=”480px”};

The only downside is now that is works in the normal browser, but not in the sidebar. This is because GreaseMonkey does not support the Firefox Sidebar (http://groups.google.com/group.....e2c99d267). Anyone knows a trick to enable the sidebar with GM?

By: Chris Lang

Chris Lang — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:49:25 +0000

Scoble actually predicted a Google Reader social bookmarking engine in 2006.

You can now add friends to your friends list, share feed items, bookmark single blog posts from blogs that you read on the web and here�s the kicker, there is now a blog recommendation engine that recommends blogs you do not read by what your friends list is subscribed to in their Google Readers.

Then, everything you share and bookmark in Google Reader of course comes up on your Google shared items page linked to by your Google profile.

What really blew me away was the recommendation engine. If you add as many of your email list subscribers as you can to your Google Reader you can get a real good idea of what other blogs your subscribers are reading.

The links in your shared items are all HTML and fully followed so every time one of your RSS subscribers shares a blog post it is creating incoming links to your site.

Better yet, it uses the exact blog post title you wrote so now your links use your keyword phrases and bookmarkers can�t change your title tag.

After talking to my SEO top dog contacts, they were all floored and assured me this is the new SEO tactic that no one knows about.

http://www.keywebdata.com/?p=136

It is kind of hard to add friends, the easiest way is to send a chat invite from Gmail and then email your contact you want to friend and have them email you back. It seems Google wants a two way conversation before they will allow you to become mutual friends.

If you would like to friend me, add chrislang at gmail.com to your Google Gmail chat and send me an email letting me know so I can return an email to you, thereby creating a two way connection in Google.

Google is quietly rolling this out behind the scenes but it is a full blown social bookmarking application and the blog recommendation engine is the new blog marketing strategy.

One thing I have not quite figured out is if using FeedBurner now hurts you since the links point at the FeedBurner redirect rather than your site like a WordPress feed does.

By: Ustice

Ustice — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 22:08:25 +0000

I have compiled the suggestions made here, and added one of my own.

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
@-moz-document url-prefix(http://www.google.com/reader/i) {
.logo {display:none !important;}
* {font-size:0.97em !important; }
span.item-snippet {display:none !important;}
span.item-source-title{font-size:0.9em !important}
.entry-row:hover { background-color: #99ccff !important; }
.entry-min-start:hover { border-color: #99ccff !important; cursor: pointer !important; }
.footer { display:none; }
span.item-count {padding-right:5px!important;}
.sub-row:hover,
#show-more-row:hover {border:2px solid #99ccff !important; cursor: pointer !important;}

.sub-row:hover {margin-bottom: -1px !important; margin-top: -2px !important; margin-right: -300px;}

#mark-these-read:hover,
.m-button:hover,
#show-new-items:hover,
#show-all-items:hover,
#mark-all-read:hover,
#show-all-subs:hover,
#show-new-subs
{cursor: pointer !important; }
}
@-moz-document url-prefix(http://mail.google.com/mail/x) {
.logo {display:none !important;}
* {font-size:0.97em !important; }
span.item-snippet {display:none !important;}
span.item-source-title{font-size:0.9em !important}
div.nav {display:none !important;}
.entry-row:hover { background-color: #99ccff !important; }
.entry-min-start:hover { border-color: #99ccff !important; cursor: pointer !important; }
}

By: Webs

Webs — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:30:20 +0000

This worked great! That Stylish plugin is pretty sweet!

By: sam

sam — Wed, 28 May 2008 03:04:26 +0000

Is there any way to set the default to display more than 15 items?

Thanks!

By: MrQwest

MrQwest — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:23:48 +0000

Nice tutorial, has become a welcome addition to my sidebar. Wasn’t particularly happy with the way the item-count sat right on the edge of the sidebar though, so added the following code to Stylish:

span.item-count {padding-right:5px!important;}

Work’s a treat

By: Alex Wayne

Alex Wayne — Mon, 19 May 2008 22:26:56 +0000

This is the best thing ever. And thank you for the introduction to stylish!

By: gunther

gunther — Mon, 19 May 2008 22:10:21 +0000

Is there anyways to run this script via GREASEMONKEY?

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 19 May 2008 21:11:55 +0000

Hide the bottom text:
.footer { display:none; }

I’m guessing a GreaseMonkey script would be needed to add functionality (new buttons, replacing buttons, etc).