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Bring Back Google Reader

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101 pointszachacole18 comments

By Nathan Bashaw

Hey—you’re using Google Analytics there. Aren’t you worried that will be shut down?

Am I worried? No, I think there's about a 0% chance they'd do that.

As worried as I am that UPS will stop doing research on logistics.

There's just too many alternatives and the market is crowded. Even with paying customers, they're focusing on other things..so they won't update the site for a while. If they bring it back, by the time they do, a better alternative wins and they go back into shutting it down. The gif is ok.

When I was looking for an RSS reader on my iPad the vast majority synced only with Google Reader. It was either that, or use their account and be fed news instead of telling them exactly which feeds I want to read.

That and they make you read them in huge squares instead of lists. One thing Google might do is automatically download all Google Reader users' data using https://www.google.com/takeout/ and allowing those apps to access the data. I think I'm seeing Gmail go too for G+. Maybe not GCal because of GGlass but right now most of what's free from Google I'm seeing it gone in 3 years.

Shutting down Google Reader makes a mockery of their famous mission statement: "Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful."

Google reader isn't exactly a mission critical service but it gives this cheesy ad from Microsoft more credence...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=...

The lesson here is that services can and do go away.

If you can't accept that use products you install locally instead.

I'll probably get buried for saying this but Google is well within its right to cut the cord on any service it offers.

Given the success of the Veronica Mars Kickstarter here, Google's next move should be obvious. :-)

If you're looking for an alternative to skim headlines please give Skim.Me (http://skim.me) a try. We're a startup releasing another version soon to help you keep up at a glance.

meh, everyone and their father has written their own RSS aggregator in ruby. I guess we can expect to see more RSS readers in the future.

It is not just an rss aggregator, it is the UI the keyboard shortcuts, the network of sharing, the discovery, autotranslation, market dominance (allowing for nearly any RSS client to keep everything in sync), and tons of more things.

"Who needs gmail - There is a Mail gem"

And most importantly the saving of history even if the feed goes down.

yes! so far i have not found a mobile friendly web app that also saves your feed, or at least a significant amount like g reader. i wish they weren't shutting it'd down.

By the way, credit for this site goes to Nathan Bashaw (@nbashaw). Just wanted to give him some props.

opensource it!

And host it.

props for registering the domain.

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