Comments on: Why Google killed off Google Reader: It was self-defense

By: Platelets

Platelets — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:08:33 +0000

Let the innovation begin of new RSS readers and similar services. I use http://www.waurb.com for all of my news. It does a damn fine job.

By: brandon m

brandon m — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:54:18 +0000

I found this simple and easy to use RSS reader: http://privateoss.com

Hope it helps someone.

By: ht

ht — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:39:15 +0000

It’s not 1 million, it is 10 million.

And the “why using X when Google+ is the one and unique tool that will repalce them all” is exactly the kind of argument that make people upset and angry.

The problem is not just that we have one less tool, the problem is we don’t want to use Google+ just because Google tell us to do so.

Google+ might be a good aternative to twitter and facebook, but if you think the internet is just twitter and facebook, please consider the fact that not everyone agree.

By: Oldoutofdate

Oldoutofdate — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 01:22:46 +0000

RSS is on its way out as a news feed vehicle. Why? Because the major news feed providors, FOX etc don’t want it. They want users viewing their own pages, clicking on their own ads and they don’t want Google as the middle man. If all you nerds read the news you might remember major news compaines making very negative comments about Google, RSS and news readers because they don’t make money from it. Pressure is applied. even Google has to get in line. Don’t think you will ever find out how or who did it. Big news doesn’t like RSS it is now of technical interest only.

By: Akhil Baral

Akhil Baral — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:33:38 +0000

“Open standards just a means to an end” really stuck with me. No one faults Google. And, of course, this is by no means “The Death of RSS.” It’s just that this latest move from Google sullens the mood of sharing and paints a lesser than picture for the future of transparent social media.

I don’t know…

Maybe this move from Google says nothing all. One thing is for sure, I agree, this is not about Google Reader: http://techoctave.com/c7/posts/104-this-is-not-about-google-reader

By: ARGO

ARGO — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 21:31:05 +0000

just throwing this in there for the guy that says that “every technical person” he knows uses chrome… I’ve worked in tech for 15 years and while the reviews vary, the general consensus among the “technical” is that Chrome is good as a basic browser, but for stability and features, they roll with Firefox.

On the topic at hand, Google perfects nothing – they get people reliant on “mostly” finished services and then kill them once it becomes apparent that they aren’t technically capable of going any further with it. Better to save face than get something right.

By: Pat Berry

Pat Berry — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:46:27 +0000

Reblogged this on The Central Scrutinizer and commented: Well put. Why Google Reader is being killed off. Did not know people still used it. Is RSS a thing of the past?

By: cserpentis

cserpentis — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:26:55 +0000

Yeah, you right, it didn’t appeal to anyone, who’s IQ only allows them to push “like”, “+1″ buttons and work as a farmer in “Farmville”, so it was a failure.

By: cserpentis

cserpentis — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:25:45 +0000

10 million power users are much better than 100 million lurker that are being dragged to G+ every step of the way. G+ failed to provide what Facebook lacked – user control of content, instead they decided to make yet another Facebook and drag users from other google projects into it. Nice try google, but no. As long as I don’t have control of what I read, and instead you try to shove a nicely formed stream of garbage down my throat – keep G+ to yourself.
And they had a gracefull way out of this situation too: just letting people read RSS from inside G+ and sharing it, more categorization, more user control over content, more pageviews and, more ads to show to users. But they decided to drop it, making anyone think twice before relying on google for any service and making “cloud” much less attractive to the end user (cloud chromebook for 1400$ anyone?), yet again proving that once you put things there, you’re totally at the mercy of the corporation.

By: cserpentis

cserpentis — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:12:56 +0000

Well, some molecules are more active than the others. And tend to lead other molecules, creating trends and such. Keeping Reader would benefit Google in keeping tech-minded crowd of fans. Instead they chose to alienate them. Try to guess if geeks will advice their less tech-minded friends to use google products now? If they can’t be sure if this product will last. I started thinking of dropping GMail and GTalk because of Google Reader’s demise at the hand of Google.