Another Friendfeed competitor? Google reader adds conversations for shared items

[mark_h]

http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2009/03/google-reader-is-your-new-watercooler.html

[mark_h]

I wasn't sure if the title was really appropriate, but I was thinking of how facebook seems to be adopting a lot of friendfeed features, and now Reader too.

Then I noticed that a techcrunch article with a similar title was submitted almost concurrently: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512795