Google reader have to reveal their API or to give up

Strange mood this morning.

last night I was trying to figure out the future of RSS-READER in this new social feed aggregation.
many social service are crossing the line between their primary objective "social connectivity" to a content mash up, feed aggregation.


ex:
1)FriendFeed feed aggregation.
2)Facebook feed aggregation.

now what will happen?


you will open rarely open your typical RSS-Reader, because you will consume your subscribed feed in your favorite social website .

the situation is even more critic for RSS-Reader, because they lake in this "social interactivity" that offer those service.

you will prefer to read the feed and people comment on, rather the to read an obsolete feed.

this is the trend, people enjoy reading what other read.

now GReader have done some steps in this direction :

1) Feed sharing via "share" or "share with a note".
2) Comment on Feed. .

those 2 feature are offered in order to increase interactivity, but the point that GReader are missing is :

1) people want to share even with non-friend, even with a simple follower.
2) people want to share their comment, feed with people that aren't GReader users.

are GReader effort to bring "sociability" effective?

the answer may be No.

so what is the solution?

GReader have to open the door for developer to bring a new ways and innovate in term of feed consumption.

until then here is a suggestion to GReader :

Trend Sharing.

one of the hidden golden mine of GReader is this ability to mine million of feed, they do when they offer a user a detailed description about a feed in term of statistic.

GReader can answer those question :

1)what blog is the most shared ?
2)what feed is the most commented?