Google Reader shutting down in July 2013

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your existing subscriptions are available through feedly. plus they are working on an api that might work with third party apps that also connect to reader. feedly is a rss reader. they have a desktop app that works in chrome and they have mobile apps for android and ios. maybe for other platforms as well.
 
What do you see here? http://www.feedly.com/home#latest
 
i was asking srk006. it seems that he did not realize that feedly was a fully functional alternative to google reader. not a feed backing up service 😛
in case you are looking for something simpler, wordpress.com has a usable reader. but it is good for reading. little else. and only usable if you have a few feeds.
http://wordpress.com/#!/read/following/
 
well what i was confused was since feedly is syncing with Google reader, will it still retain our subscriptions after its demise. Looks like it will.. 😀
 
feedly is just about ok... but no where good as reader 🙁
 

well it is quite powerful in its own sense. many more sharing options. almost similar keyboard shortcuts (j/k for browsing through your inbox and so on).
i never got used to google reader personally so feedly looks uncomfortable to me too. very comfortable with opera mail. end up having 50K unread items in a month's time when i clean it up and start from scratch again 😀
 
Hmm so Google does not want to offer any service based on RSS. Would be interesting to see what will they do with Feedburner since its deeply integrated with Blogger despite numerous bugs.
 
Feedburner shutdown would create a major havoc on the web. Hundreds of thousands of feeds are probably powered by it. They would break. Millions of links on social media and other places would break as well.
Frankly speaking, I have my own mess created by Feedburner. I find loads of Feedburner powered links shared on Twitter dead today. Really make no sense because they should be permanent. But nope!
They have already shut down adsense for feeds. So, the revenue model for Feedburner no longer exist.
 
That will surely happen. Its high time people should shift from Feedburner. Feedburner's reporting has been erratic since last 1 year. Feedblitz is the best and probably the most powerful alternative available. Feedburner will die eventually no matter even if it angers half the web out there.
chromaniac said:
Frankly speaking, I have my own mess created by Feedburner. I find loads of Feedburner powered links shared on Twitter dead today. Really make no sense because they should be permanent. But nope!
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The links by Feedburner's auto tweet service?
 
Yeah. And the service is so buggy that disabling FB analytic feature (that created the fb powered links) did not turn off those links. I ended up switching to dlvr.it for sharing.
It would still be a huge mess. Unless of course Google offers a free redirection service. Millions of subscriptions would be lost otherwise. 😛
 
Well they removed the auto posting service so I guess the links went down with them automatically. If only Google had not purchased Feedburner.
 
chromaniac said:
It would still be a huge mess. Unless of course Google offers a free redirection service. Millions of subscriptions would be lost otherwise. :tongue:
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Free Redirection would again make people lazy enough. I guess they can give them some period to switch over after which all links will go dead. :tongue: Would be best.
chromaniac said:
Publicize is not removed : They just do not let you add new Twitter accounts.
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Oh..okay. I thought they removed it.
 

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