RSS isn’t rocket science. And while Google Reader is gasping its last breaths—after this weekend, it’s gone forever—there’s already a veritable army of newcomers vying to replace it. There’s even a good chance one of them will be better than the dead-end Google Reader ever could have been. That’s great and all, but even the perfect RSS reader can’t fill the void. Google Reader wasn’t just a service; it was a place, and I’ll miss being there.
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The day we RSS fans have been dreading for months is almost here. On Monday, Google Reader dies. Forever. There’s no going back. Everybody’s been hawking their replacements, and we’ve brought you a little sampling
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Just in time! On the weekend before Google Reader is set to mercilessly kill itself off, Digg Reader has opened its arms to everyone. After being in beta
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The end of Google Reader is near. But your carefully curated RSS feeds don’t have to die with it.
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There’s more than a few enterprises that have an eye on filling the void in the RSS market left by Google’s curious withdrawal. Digg is one of those hoping to woo Mountain View’s refugees and has updated its iOS app to incorporate its experimental new service, which offers direct imports from Google Reader. It’s available from the App Store right now, but we’d be remiss if we didn’t mention that there are other, ahem, AOL-sanctioned, alternatives.
Filed under: Internet, Apple, Google
Via: The Next Web
Source: App Store
When Google announced it was pulling Reader’s plug (which will happen next week), the outcry was loud and viral. If I may speak for those who were most wounded by the knife in Reader’s back, the announcement shock was mixed with betrayal, anger and loss. Those who built RSS reading into their lives generally placed it at the epicenter of their online activity. Anticipating life without Reader was a black-hole view — the web with a void punched into the center.
As the wailing turned practical, exporting and migrating recommendations proliferated. The commotion died down for a while, and has now resumed for Reader’s final week. Major and minor brands are jumping into the feed-reading game, seeking to sway a vocal population looking for new homes. But is a loud community of users also a large community of users? Feed-based web consumption hasn’t had this much publicity in years. Does all this product development and media attention signal a rebirth of RSS’s geeky convenience? Or are money and effort being thrown at an ephemeral market?
Facebook is reportedly building a mobile app — not so uniquely dubbed “Reader” — for browsing news stories on smartphones and tablets.
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Google Reader is on its deathbed
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