Shankar Ganesh

Now, you could share items on Google Reader with your friends via email, thanks to a new feature introduced in the product, the Google Reader Blog announced today.

It was possible to share items by using the ‘Share’ button at the end of an item in Google Reader, and your friends were able to read your items via your Shared Items Public Page feed.

But for the not so-savvy ones, this won’t be of much help. So, you could email them the interesting things you read the other day on Reader, by clicking the Email button under the item.

An AJAX box opens near the bottom of the feed, asking you for the email address. Like Gmail, contact addresses here can be autocompleted:

You could also add some personal notes in the email.