Google Reader lived on borrowed time: creator Chris Wetherell reflects

Post by sp332 » Thu, Mar 14, 2013, 3:02 PM UTC

crazygringo wrote: post #21

sp332 wrote: post #11

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?

I'm assuming the Internet Wayback Machine [1] would have them indexed, if they were up for any length of time? [1] http://archive.org/web/web.php

Post by udfalkso » Thu, Mar 14, 2013, 3:50 PM UTC

616c wrote: post #3

danohuiginn wrote: post #2

"Reader is (was?) for information junkies; not just tech nerds. This market totally exists and is weirdly under-served (and is possibly affluent)." This is what I don't understand about the death of the RSS ecosystem. A whole class of professionals spend their days reading text -- in government, in finance, in specialist journalism. Many would pay for a decent reader; it's a tool of their trade, after all. You don't…

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…

Post by marssaxman » Thu, Mar 14, 2013, 8:23 PM UTC

danohuiginn wrote: post #2

"Reader is (was?) for information junkies; not just tech nerds. This market totally exists and is weirdly under-served (and is possibly affluent)." This is what I don't understand about the death of the RSS ecosystem. A whole class of professionals spend their days reading text -- in government, in finance, in specialist journalism. Many would pay for a decent reader; it's a tool of their trade, after all. You don't…

Post by Turing_Machine » Fri, Mar 15, 2013, 3:15 AM UTC

conradfr wrote: post #12

The 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.