![]() ![]() Get the first word on what the important tech news really means with the InfoWorld Tech Watch blog. This story, " With Google Reader gone, can FeedBurner be far behind?" was originally published at. And The Old Reader gets high marks for copying Google's old Reader interface (social interaction provided by Facebook), but it doesn't have mobile apps. If neither of those fills the bill - and you can't survive with Twitter or Facebook and/or Flipboard - try using NetVibes it has a home page that's a bit like iGoogle. The service currently relies on Google Reader's API, but the folks at Feedly have assured us (before their blog went down) that they have their own version that will be working before Google Reader shuts down. There's also a social dimension and a "read later" flagging capability. The interface is organized like a magazine with tiles, so it won't be familiar at all to Google Reader fans. Feedly runs as an extension to Chrome or Firefox, or as a stand-alone app on iOS, Android, or Kindle.(The unlocked $1-per-month version has no restrictions.) It runs as a website or as an app on iOS or Android. It'll import your subscriptions through an OPML file or directly from Google Reader, and will let you run up to 64 sites in its free version. The social side of NewsBlur lets you post items on your NewsBlur blog and view posts from others. Open source NewsBlur's greatest claim to fame is its ability to learn (more or less) what interests you, then help you sift through volumes of feeds guided by what you've taught. NewsBlur has an interface that's at least vaguely reminiscent of Google Reader.Wait until things settle down, then try one of these: All of the major alternative sites are clogged, and it'll only get worse in the next couple of weeks. If you feel that you really need an old-fashioned RSS reader (I'm only gently chiding here), here's one important piece of advice: Don't even think about switching for the next month or so. Most organizations worth following via RSS have Twitter accounts as well. The concepts are similar, but the implementation's more granular whereas few writers maintain their own RSS feeds, many have Twitter accounts. What can you do if you're among those who will be impacted by the demise? Lots of people (present company included) have been relying less and less on RSS readers and more on Twitter. The demise of FeedBurner will make life more difficult for some techies, but other services will fill in the gap and most consumers won't even feel a bump. But it's never become a consumer technology - not even close. RSS is here for the long term, in one form or another, as a glue technology. While you can find millions of people who will enthusiastically describe what Flipboard does, you'd be hard-pressed to find 1 percent of them who understand how it's done -or care, for that matter. It's easy for consumers to visualize a Flipboard kind of aggregation of frequently updated data, but RSS remains an arcane "glue" topic, like. RSS never reached critical mass in the general computer-using public. I'm starting to get concerned about the future of RSS technology as a whole. RSS may still be the plumbing that makes a lot of applications tick, but don't look for Google to provide a platform for RSS much longer." Frederic Lardinois at TechCrunch says, "If you are actively using Feedburner, I think it's time to start taking full possession of your feeds again (which isn't easy). Google paid $100 million for FeedBurner in 2007, then new development shriveled up, and it now looks like FeedBurner itself may be headed into one of Google's "spring cleaning" dustbins. Then in October Google cut off the APIs for FeedBurner, the mother lode of RSS feeds for more than half a million sites. "AdSense for Feeds was designed to help publishers earn revenue from their content by placing ads on their RSS feeds." In a move that received little mainstream attention, last September Google closed down AdSense for Feeds, which was Google's only way to make money from RSS feeds. Those aren't Google's only retreats from the RSS frontier. Ted Samson talks about the user backlash over Google Reader's demise - and points to a petition you can sign (joining more than 58,000 others to date) asking Google to stay the execution. has eroded over time, so we'll be winding it down," and "while has a loyal following, over the years usage has declined." ![]() ![]() The theme in both cases was similar: "With modern apps that run on platforms like Chrome and Android, the need. In last year's " spring cleaning in summer," Google cast away the easily customized iGoogle RSS-aggregating website, effective Nov. That isn't Google's first blow to RSS technology. Yesterday evening Google announced it would abandon the Google Reader RSS feed-reading app on July 1. ![]()
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