But it does leave a large market gap open for someone to fill. I've moved my RSS feeds to an offline aggregator for some time now, but I'd still love to have a cloud-based reader replacement if I can find one with a decent, compact and convenient UI, and preferably also the ability to follow and discover other user's recommendations. Suggestions?
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+Bill Abrams your welcome… Enjoy!
+Matthew Hall thanks for the help.
Ahh. Underneath "sign in." Kind of makes sense, but I was looking for "sign up" which was pretty easy to do at every other reader page that I've tried.
Try here: http://www.netvibes.com/signin?from=home
Been there, done that. Unsuccessfully. Can you point to anywhere on their site that they indicate how one goes about signing up for basic?
+Bill Abrams Good point – I'll pass it along. But go here: http://www.netvibes.com/en and follow the links to get started.
+Matthew Hall How does one go about signing up for the basic service? (And why isn't the answer obvious from their website?)
I use #Netvibes and recommend it! http://bit.ly/GoWithNetvibes
Once again Google doesn't get Social …
Once Reader was even considered to be the Basis for Google Social Networking, before they decided to clone Diaspora.
My Guess would be we get a Feed Icon in G+ and all the Stuff is dumped into our main Stream …
There's a petition here… Will most likely not do anything…
https://www.change.org/petitions/google-keep-google-reader-running
+Jordi Posthumus I agree. I think what we're seeing is the difference between Brin / Page style leadership.
Even though I have spent more and more time with this app recently, I am not enamored and think that there must be a better alternative. I am curious to see what recommendations you get here.
I'm really going to miss Reader.
I really feel this violates their core mission statement:
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
The mission makes commercial sense in the long run and is noble too. I'm sad (as a user and shareholder) that they are losing sight of this over weak short-term thinking.
That is a very good point. This is a most un "Don't Be Evil" move I've seen from Google since they shoehorned Picasa web users into Google + despite it being an inferior product.
That really sucks! Google reader is where I get most of my content…
+Jordi Posthumus ever wonder what decides what relevant content for you is in currents, or google+? It probably will involve view placement fees in the future, the way search results do today. But that only works if google cuts off the user's ability to get a non-filtered view… and probably has more profit potential for Google than user micropayments do.
This could not have been more stupid. Most users of this product would pay good money to keep it going.