How I Feed Google Reader Shared Items into Twitter and FriendFeed
Unlike others out there in the Interwebs, I still use Google Reader. Like all Google Reader users, I have a Shared Items page.
I wanted to set it up so that anything I shared was fed directly into my Twitter and FriendFeed streams. It turns out this was pretty easy on FriendFeed–I could just connect up Google Reader and I was done.
For Google Reader, I used Twitterfeed as an intermediary. After I created an account with Twitterfeed, I set it up to read my Google Reader Shared Items Atom Feed once per hour. (Atom is like RSS; find the URL for your Atom feed on the public view of your Google Reader Shared Items page.)
Each new item Twitterfeed finds in my Google Reader Shared Items feed is posted to my Twitter stream. It turns out that it works pretty nicely. The only problem I’ve found so far is that the items show up twice in FriendFeed because I have FF configured to pull in all my tweets and Google Reader Shared Items. (Perhaps I’ll disconnect one of them…not sure which one though.)