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Google has added the ability to share content from Google Reader to friends on Google Talk.This is essentially how it works: you log into Reader and see a friends tab where you can now specify friends from your broader network (ie: Gmail/ GTalk contacts) to share items of interest with.

I’m a little underwhelmed by it all, but Robert Scoble isn’t and Steve Rubel sexes the announcement up to the point of calling it part of “Google’s Stealth Social Net,” which makes it seem a whole lot more interesting than it would appear on the surface. Of course like any good Google product it’s another cross-promotion tool that encourages you to use more of Google’s products.

More at the Google Blog here. Maybe after the bombshell of Knol yesterday I’m just easily unexcited today. If you share things using Google Reader now you can share with more people…which is great if you’re heavily into sharing, if you didn’t even know that you could share things in Reader or don’t use the feature, then nothing exciting here.

But steps he took Friday to tweak the constitution appeared to confirm the opinion of many legal experts that the president’s case had been weak.

The president removed a condition from the constitution stating that civil servants — including army officers — had to wait two years after their retirement before running for elected office, Attorney General Malik Mohammed Qayyum told The Associated Press.

Musharraf stepped down as army chief only last month.

Qayyum said other changes sealed the retirement of purged Supreme Court judges, including former Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry, who either refused or were not invited to sign a fresh oath after the emergency. Their replacements swiftly approved Musharraf’s re-election in October by a Parliament stacked with his supporters.

Jamaat-e-Islami — Pakistan’s largest Islamic party — withdrew its 130 candidates for Parliament and 450 nominations for provincial assemblies in protest against Musharraf’s dismissal of judges, spokesman Ameerul Azim said.

“This is a fraud election. We are boycotting unless the judges are restored,” he said.

Qayyum said Musharraf was considering whether to grant an opposition demand for the suspension of mayors to prevent them from influencing the elections, and whether to lift a ban on anyone serving more than twice as prime minister. That could ease his fraught relations with opposition leaders and archrivals Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif.

However, Sen. Raza Rabbani of Bhutto’s party said removing the mayors less than four weeks before the elections was a gesture to appease the international community.

Both Musharraf and his Western backers say they want the election to produce a stable, moderate government strong enough to stand up to a wave of Islamic militancy.

However, Musharraf has clamped down on independent media and purged the judiciary, prompting Bhutto and Sharif to warn of mass demonstrations if they think the vote has been rigged in favor of pro-Musharraf rivals.