Google announced that it’s killing off Google indorser stiff July 1, 2013. Reader was Google’s web-based program that let people conduct to news feeds from their favorite sites. That’s a shame, because Reader was lovely great.
While RSS has maybe seen its heyday enter and go, Google Reader was nonable not only for its features, solely for the active community it fostered for which Reader wasn’t just another tool. Sure it was revolutionary in wrong of function, further moreover it was beloved.
Reader grew out of Blogger. In the summer of 2004, Jason Shellen — who had come to Google with the Blogger acquisition — was working on Google’s Atom specification. He asked a Blogger engineer Chris Wetherell if it would be possible to build an in-browser XML-parser to father sense of all these feeds. This little tool became Google Reader. Shellen liked the product, but couldn’t get the go-ahead from Google to launch it under its genial program, so he took it to Marissa Mayer, who was running Google’s consumer web services. Mayer gave Reader the green-light–provided the team would strip out its social features.
It debuted as a formal Google Labs product in 2005. It developed a take of novel features, like the ability to detect what you had read on a per-item basis. And by 2007, it outgrew Labs and emerged as its own product (via a post from its marketing manager Kevin Systrom, who would go on to prime Instagram). And yet slowly, social crept back in.
Reader gave users the ability to fri oddment, follow and function stories with others. It let readers component part stories with each other, and comment on them too. It became a place not just to read new stories, but to share and discuss them with friends. It was a discovery tool and a salon all in one.
However, Google removed the ability to natively share and replaced it with a Google + sharing option in 2011. That was effectively the end of the Reader community, many members of which publicly lamented the loss.
And now, the entire product is liberation away for good. This wasn’t exactly unforeseen. Reader had long been basically ignored, its updates were few and far between. Last month, when many users started reporting problems, Google barely ignored the issue for several days before correct commenting on it. The end of Reader has been in plain exhibition for some time. Wired asked Shellen if he was sad to see Google at last pull the plug.
“It’s more bittersweet,” he replied. “I’d almost rather see it go away than lounge about out there and languish.”
If you really loved Google Reader’s features, Feedly is planning to launch a clone of the service. It will portion out you the features, but the community is basically gone for good.
But what about you? Were you a Google Reader user? Are you still? Will you flatten it?
Materials taken from WIRED
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