Sam Harrelson

Sam's Personal Stream of Life

I wonder how anyone uses GMail or GReader without keystrokes...

Seriously folks, J and K. 

Start there.

It'll change your life.

I'm constantly amazed when I talk to "long time" GMail (or more rarely but more encouraging) Google Reader users who don't use the J or K or "tab + send" or the plethora of keyboard shortcuts that make these platforms SO much more valuable and intuitive.

I'm beginning to suspect that GMail is still behind Hotmail and Yahoo Mail in terms of adoption because folks haven't discovered J/K, Shift+1, Shift+3, Y, E, etc... 

The Future is Like-able (thx @scobleizer)

Just subscribed to Robert Scoble's Twitter Favs (RSS link) in Google Reader. Got the idea from this FriendFeed convo:
Hmm, how do I import my Twitter Favorites into FriendFeed. FriendFeed doesn't work with the RSS feed I found.
via friendfeed.com

I'm confident that the future of the RSS subscriber / Twitter Follower / Facebook Friend paradigm will (continue) to shift towards being based on Likes.

Facebook does this well, FriendFeed does this well, Google is really getting into this well (with more emphasis on Likes and Shares in Google Reader) and ultimately Twitter will start pushing this functionality more (and let us not forget the Posterous Favs option).

Soon, it won't matter how many followers/friends/subscribers you have, but how many Likes you chalk up... and that has much more emphasis on quality.