Google reader sendto recipes
Google Reader is my daily tool to keep up-to-date with all the RSS feeds I want to read. The advantage is that it is a web hosted app, so that I can read it from any laptop or iPhone and Google keeps improving it. One of my favourite RSS feeds is just the new items at http://blogs.sun.com/main/page/recentposts so that I see the collective treasure of information Sunnies are creating.
You can share items and send them from your Gmail account, but now Google has also added a “Sendto” option, so that you can quickly post an item to Facebook, Twitter and some other services.
The beauty is that you can create your own sendto links. You can find instructions here for the AddtoAny service for example. Since I regularly want to send something to colleagues and friends – but not necessarily from my Gmail account – I decided to use the mailto link definitions to set that up:
Note that you do not need to enter recipients and you can structure the subject and body fields to your taste. This url pops up a new message with empty To: field, title of the article and title and url in the body of the message. The %0A is there for a line break. Neat hu ?
