Google may have accidentally-on-purpose scooped up data while (war)driving in Germany, and its new option to change the background on its home page is just plain silly, but they did do something right in the last few weeks.
I am a heavy user of Google products and an appreciator of the simplicity of its design philosophy, but with Google Reader they may have moved the scalpel a little too close: until recently there was no way to rename a folder containing RSS feed subscriptions. Once you created a folder, you were stuck with it—unless you wanted to start over with a new name and forklift existing feed entries.
On the Official Google Reader Blog, the company announced on June 1 that users now have the ability to rename folders.
Often times, it’s the small things that make the difference.
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