Gerd’s Blog

I just mentioned that Google Reader got several new features. I was just trying them and mentioned some issues.

1. Notes
   I think this was a feature that had to be added to the reader. Not being able to add content links to your shared items feed that is not available in form of an RSS feed you subscribed was just annoying. On the other hand there was Google Share i just found about 2 weeks ago. You can do the same there just there is an other RSS feed your consumers had to subscribe to. With FriendFeed this wouldn’t be tat big problem but at the moment aggregation services are rarely used.
   On the other hand i read some posts that in my opinion interpreted Notes wrong. Maybe the name is misleading.
2. Adding comments while Sharing
   I like the feature but once again there are several issues. First of all the content is added of the original post. I wonder what useful services like AidRSS are doing with that. On the other hand the GUI for adding messages is far to small. you can just read two lines
3. Change shared item content
   I really think this is going too far. You as creator now can not be sure that the content you publish is shared in the same way. Maybe someone is just changing one word an the whole message get an totally different meaning. You even wouldn’t find the difference if you are not reading the whole message. I suggest most of the user want to get the original content. Now i have to check every shared item if it has the original content because there is no information that it was edited by the persons who shares it.
   I hope they rethink this feature because in my opinion it just brings confusion and distrust.

If you have shared an commented or edited Item there is no relation to the original post in your reader. So you can’t see while you browse the feeds which items had been shared.

I think some of the ideas relate to one of my older postings “Meta RSS Feeds sharing“.

At the moment the company i am working for (located in Vienna) is searching for new developers. It is not that easy to find qualified developers that fit in our team these days. As mentioned in the last post we are using Scrum as development process and our primary programming language is C#. So if you are interested feel free to write me.

Joel Spolsk wrote a book called “Smart and Gets Things Done” which addresses exactly the challenges hiring people.
In his book he describes how his company tries to find the best developers available. As he mentions in his book “top technical talent doesn’t look for employment” they look for so much more than only an employment with high salary, even in Europe. It’s highly recommended to read this book.

By the way this time we are trying to use http://jobs.joelonsoftware.com/ to find new employees. At the moment most of the posts on the site are from the US or India but let’s see what the posting will bring us. Anyway i will report the results of the posting in a view days.