Google Kills Its RSS Subscription Browser Extension Too

Post by ville » Sat, Mar 16, 2013, 8:55 PM UTC

lucian1900 wrote: post #31

MatthewPhillips wrote: post #18

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That ship sailed a long time ago. I see it as when they gave up on Friend Connect / OpenSocial as when they sort of gave up on the idea of open-first, and instead started focusing it competing feature-for-feature. Mozilla is the champion of the open web these days. Google started their proprietary NaCl and Dart projects because they claimed you couldn't make JavaScript any faster than it currently is. And now Mozilla…

NaCl (in particular PNaCl) is merely a different approach. I would call asm.js crazy, but that's just me. Something similar could be said about Dart, but there the language itself is not so interesting (merely not insane). The VM is potentially the language-independent bytecode and stdlib in a browser we've all been waiting for. While Google have been behavin evil-ly lately, in particular related to Google+, NaCl and…

Post by camus » Sat, Mar 16, 2013, 9:04 PM UTC

marknutter wrote: post #91

ldh wrote: post #79

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Sure, RSS isn't ideally suited for "news" when you can just hit an aggregation site or two. But it's extremely useful for following particular content you're interested in regardless of popularity. If I come across a particularly insightful, well-written blog on some obscure programming topic I'd like to read more of what that person has to say without having to remember to check back at some point or cross my finger…

Most of the time the author has a Twitter account you can follow and they post not only links to their new articles but also random interesting thoughts you wouldn't necessarily get through RSS.

Post by subsection1h » Sat, Mar 16, 2013, 9:58 PM UTC

Kiro wrote: post #38

choko wrote: post #16

I don't understand what people use to see new information from multiple websites at once if they aren't using RSS. Are they actually visiting 10 or 20 websites a day manually? Do "normal" users stick to just a few websites?

You don't need updates from 10 to 20 websites. Find one or two good aggregators. HN and Facebook are enough for me.

    HN and Facebook are enough for me.

Post by ijk » Sat, Mar 16, 2013, 10:02 PM UTC

BHSPitMonkey wrote: post #118

mike-cardwell wrote: post #64

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Chrome is created by an Ad company so that they can make more money selling Ads. People are willing to overlook this fact because they trust that Google wont put it's own desire to make profit over keeping the web open. People are losing the trust that this is the case. If somebody comes up with some new technology that makes the web better in some way, but also means it's more difficult or impossible to target adver…

Does using Chrome or Chromium somehow serve Google and its nefarious goals?

Post by shrikant » Sat, Mar 16, 2013, 11:26 PM UTC

Udo wrote: post #67

I think they're going to shut down Blogger next. It's a neglected platform at best, and it too encroaches on some partial functionality that could be offered by G+. Picasa is in the process of being absorbed completely into G+. We're in the middle of a massive consolidation. They're closing down and walling off everything they can. When the smoke clears Google will have transformed from an open standards company into…