Google Reader - Take 2

I was insanely angry with Google’s decision still I am. Here are some stats from my Google Reader takeout data.

  • Following 44 people
  • Followed by 31 people
  • 690 Articles shared* with me
  • 1017 Articles shared* by me
  • 5657 Starred Articles

If you are people who think Social feed is replacing it, I promise you it never will. Reader is completely a different beast. I agree with Führer here. Leave.

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Don't Kill Google Reader

Larry, if all these are because of Steve’s advice. Learn one important attribute of Steve, his ability to change his mind.

Kill products that are copycat of others (cough! cough! Google+). Whatever the efforts that went into recent changes of Google reader (Unified theme, Removing “Share” feature and add “+1” features) are the reasons why there was a decline in usage.

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Idea to action: Tile this

Not many of my ideas are converted to a project, this one has seen its light last week. Though I haven’t completed all the UI and features of my original vision, it is better to have one working idea than nothing.

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Google Chrome : Hybrid of all

  • Webkit as rendering engine like Safari
  • Tabstyles are from Flock
  • Startup page similar to Opera speed-dial and Flock myhome page
  • Paste and go in the address bar like Opera
  • No menu bar like IE 7
  • Tab-to-window and vice versa from Opera/Safari
  • Incognito browsing similar to Private Browsing
  • Create Application Shortcuts like Mozilla Prism

What’s new in Google Chrome

  • No two separate textboxes for URL and for Search
  • Every tab is a separate process
  • Innovative Search, composite of Tortoise Merge (any Textdiff app), Firefox’s (Highlight All) findbox positioned similar to Safari
  • Built-in support for Google Gears
  • Above all its from the giant Google

Google Chrome : The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005)

 

The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005). Click on OK to terminate the application

Symantec causes this issue and the temp. solution is to disable the sandbox. And the solution from Google Groups is    You can try running Google Chrome with --no-sandbox (you need to edit the properties of the shortcut you use to launch it).

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