It is not very often that Google introduces news features to its Google Reader service. This is despite the fact that Google Reader is perhaps among the widely used Google product. But that was before, as Google is putting more social networking/sharing feature to Google Reader.
So now, users can start finding people with public shares items and when they found an interesting Google Reader user who is generous enough to share their items. You can also subscribe to these shared items and it will appear on your Google Reader main page. To find people with public shared items, users can use Google Reader’s new people search feature or browse for users via their name., location or topic.
Aside from those features, Google Reader now allows sharing of public items to specific groups of people only. Users who maintain their Google profile can now add link from the Google Reader page to Google profile. After adding this link, users can start following other users publicly shared items. In addition, Google Reader now also allows rating of shared items.
