Google Reader is probably the only place that even has an archive of many defunct blogs. Are they going to archive them somewhere or just throw that trove of web history away?
Google Reader lived on borrowed time: creator Chris Wetherell reflects
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Re: Google Reader lived on borrowed time: creator Chris Wetherell reflects
#12The article hints that it's the recommendation system that is hard and use a lot of resources.
Funny as it is exactly the part of the product I didn't care about.
Re: Google Reader lived on borrowed time: creator Chris Wetherell reflects
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is time consuming. I have been working on my own open source reader and it takes a lot of effort to get right. Even worse, I am having a hard time to get people to try it out so I can get feedback to improve it. I keep working on it just because I rely on it for my daily news/podcast.
maybe because people used google reader ... i'm sure there wil be a lot more people interested in your project , a good rss reader is just an invaluable tool for my organisation and some exec may be willing to pay good money for a perfect google reader clone.
The bigger issue is that we are relying more and more to few centralized services on the Web, which doesn't really interop well with each other and does not respect continuity in terms of data or API.
Take a look at Twitter API 1.1 changes, etc. There are more examples of this. At least Google Reader support export subscription list using OPML format.
Re: Google Reader lived on borrowed time: creator Chris Wetherell reflects
#14Interesting that apparently the data generated by Reader was not valuable enough for Google. +1 are sufficient for Google to understand people's interests? Seems to me information junkies could have been an important source of information.
But then the SEO spammers probably also just created Google Reader profiles with fake reading lists?
How is the situation on G+, is it easy for SEO spammers to game it or is it harder, for example because of the real name policy?
Re: Google Reader lived on borrowed time: creator Chris Wetherell reflects
#15Google Reader is probably the only place that even has an archive of many defunct blogs. Are they going to archive them somewhere or just throw that trove of web history away?
Most likely the later, sounds like we should take care of preserving them ourselves.
Re: Google Reader lived on borrowed time: creator Chris Wetherell reflects
#16Apple had Mapgate. Google has Readergate.
Re: Google Reader lived on borrowed time: creator Chris Wetherell reflects
#17Google Reader is probably the only place that even has an archive of many defunct blogs. Are they going to archive them somewhere or just throw that trove of web history away?
Most likely the later, sounds like we should take care of preserving them ourselves.
Brainstorming session on irc://efnet/#archiveteam
Edit: wrong channel d'oh
Re: Google Reader lived on borrowed time: creator Chris Wetherell reflects
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have seen companies tried, and worked for a strategic consulting firm at one time who was heavily reliant on RSS feeds for sending information (we were basicly human parsers on very topic-specific items). And they used NewsGator. I get the impression NewGator is not doing that well, and the "I will pay good money" sector you suggest exists does not; very few people are willing to pay for good interface, despite a s…
I considered building my own too, but it seems like a lot of work for something I can sort of do without. Are there any open source web-based feed readers that are worth setting up and running?
Selfoss [1] looks pretty cool (imo more usable than TT RSS) but is missing OPML import. GPL v3.
Re: Google Reader lived on borrowed time: creator Chris Wetherell reflects
#19So Reader was a red-headed stepchild from the inception.
I mostly abandoned Reader for Twitter when Google made it clear that the one true path was Google+. My team used the share/comment features in Reader constantly, and got alot of value from it. And not just for blogs -- we'd subscribe to Google Alert RSS feeds and use Reader to annotate.
Google+ Hangouts are amazing. It's Facebook cloning is ok. But it is weak for the core workflow that Reader gave you. Twitter is close, but it's 100% public nature limits it utility for me.
At the end of the day, I lost a functionality that was valuable to me. It's too bad, but I'll live.
Re: Google Reader lived on borrowed time: creator Chris Wetherell reflects
#20Google now more focus on those products which gives more profitability and revenue either direct or through advertising.http://leadsrain.com/