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Google Reader, the popular RSS Feed reader from Google has become more social with a recent update. The reader application now allows you to directly share and bookmark feed items with other popular social networking and bookmarking services ( like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Reddit, Digg ).

In a blogpost, Google says

We’ve made it easier to share posts you like to Blogger, Twitter, Facebook, and more, with our new “Send to” feature. (Incidentally, Blogger is celebrating its tenth birthday this month, and we’re hoping our friends there will like this little birthday present.)

Just head over to the settings page, and enable the services you want to use. If your favorite service isn’t listed (and you’re feeling extra geeky), you can create your own “Send to” link with a URL template.

To share an item on one of your sites, simply click the “Send to” button and choose your service. If you’re into keyboard shortcuts, “shift-t” will do the same.

While, you can always add items to your feed for social bookmarking, not many feed owners do that. In my opinion, this is certainly a very interesting and much awaited feature.

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