Bookmarklets: Instapaper Gets Even Tighter with Google Reader

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Want to know what's cool and emerging? Me too. That's why I subscribe to dozens of blog feeds from cool companies large and small. They include all the Google blogs, the Twitter, Friendfeed and Facebbook blog and many more.
I have decided to share these with you by rolling them up into single feed, which you can browse or subscribe or even download the OPML file. I have also published a list of all 60 blogs that are in this bundle below. I am constantly adding/removing companies from this list so please leave a comment if I omitted some big ones. (Note, some are Edelman clients.)
Also, I might at some point port the feed over to Twitter via Twitterfeed and/or add it to post to my Linkstream site so that we can discuss these items as well.
Update: We've been added as an official site, so now it's even easier! You don't have to do the stuff below anymore.
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We're big fans of Google Reader. It's one of the easiest ways to view everyone's stuff fast. Yesterday, Google Reader added a new Send To feature that lets you post to your favorite places right from Google Reader while you're looking at stuff.
By popular demand, now you can use this new Send To feature with Posterous. Go to Settings > Send To in Google Reader and under "Don't see your favorite site?" click Create Custom Link.
Then copy and paste the values below into the custom link fields:
| Name | |
| URL | |
| Icon URL |
It should look like this:

Click Save and you're done.
Now when browsing Google Reader, you'll see a "Send To" option for Posterous at the bottom of each reader entry like so:

When you click Posterous, you'll be sent to our "Share on Posterous" page that works like our Bookmarklet. We've also revamped the way the bookmarklet handles text posts so if you don't select any text on a page, we'll still try to extract the meatiest part of the content of a page.
Of course, you can always still just click "Email" to post@posterous.com, and that will still work just great too.
Feel free to email us at help@posterous.com if you run into any problems.
Here's a nifty little Firefox add-on, which I discovered via MakeUseOf. It's called gReactions.
The extension adds a button underneath every item in Google Reader that says "Show Comments." Click on it and instantly you can browse incoming links from Twitter, Friendfeed, Digg and more. In addition, for some blogs, you can view comments right in Google Reader using gReactions. Neat tool. (Disclosure: Pizza Hut, which is mentioned in the screen shot, is a client of Zeno Group, a Daniel J. Edelman company - where I work)Call me crazy, but I love email. I tend to gravitate to services that integrate with it. For example, like Jesse Stay, I often use Gmail to interact with Friendfeed. For the same reason, I am back with Backpack since I can shuttle to-do's back and forth via email. Evernote too works great with email for notes and other data. But this just scratches the surface - email is also a massive social network that's just waiting to be unleashed through APIs. Here's a taste.
Here's how I've set up my lifestreaming flow...
Capture:: This is where I collect my inspiration for content and create it. I am increasingly using Friendfeed as a front-end filter for all my social network content. I read feeds in Google Reader. I build mindmaps using Mindmeister and Mindnode. Finally, I create media on my iPhone - text using WriteRoom, sound using the voice recorder, and photos/videos using the camera.
Process:: Everything lands in Gmail and/or Evernote. I email feed items to myself that get tagged. I subscribe to certain Friendfeed lists that I have set up in Gmail. Finally, I am experimenting using Zemanta to find related content.
Share and Connect:: Then I email items into Posterous - text, images, audio, videos. These automatically populate certain social networks depending on the address I send them to (this is a Posterous feature). Comments come back to me in Gmail both on the site and through searches. I learn what you have to say and then that too gets stored.
What do you think?