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Re: More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours

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Post by saraid216 »

TillE wrote: post #16
nsns wrote: post #10

I believe most users are currently in a "searching" phase, and have joined more than one alternative, so this sudden growth might be misleadding. That said, for now, Feedly is my favorite alternative, so good luck.

"Misleading" in the sense that only a fraction of those may become loyal Feedly users, sure. But it seems like a pretty good estimate of the number of active and aggrieved Google Reader users out there.

Or it's people who have been thinking about using an RSS client and got caught up in the deluge of alternatives suddenly being offered much more loudly. /shrug

Re: More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours

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Post by tracker1 »

itsprofitbaron wrote: post #91
mladenkovacevic wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>What is baffling is that Google can't or won't monetize a product with that many users. Or even just open source it and get some positive PR to offset the negative they've been getting.

Google can't open source Google Reader even if it wanted to because, to make connections and recommendations it used Google's Crawler which is part of the rest of Google's infastructure - something which Google definitely won't open source. As well as using Google's Crawler, the Google Reader team created separate recommendations to improve Google Reader and those people don't come cheap either - and giving up that k…

So.. give the subscribe/favorite/star portions and take out the recommendations.. most people rarely use that functionality.

Re: More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours

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Post by saraid216 »

maratd wrote: post #76
rmrfrmrf wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Until your favorite blogs realize that RSS is just a money sink and shut down their feeds, which is exactly what Google is subtly prophesying and no one seems to get.

> RSS is just a money sink You guys are missing the most obvious point and the big boys have already figured it out. Subscribe to Engadget, Gizmodo, etc. What you'll get is an excerpt of the story with a "click this link to read the rest". After I click, I'm on their site. I want to read/post comments? I'm on their site. RSS is free advertising for content providers and a way to get more eyeballs. Google is foolish f…

> What you'll get is an excerpt of the story with a "click this link to read the rest".

I remember like... what, six years ago? when people were arguing over whether or not this was an evil thing to do.

Re: More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours

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Post by aaronbrethorst »

rdl wrote: post #108
aaronbrethorst wrote: post #93

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I'm working on a really, really minimal news reader (sign up for updates here: http://signup.viafeeds.com ). I like the idea of Newsblur and Feedly a lot, but I don't feel like either of them capture the simplicity that Google Reader used to have, before the unfortunate redesign. I want to get back to that, and have a system that will seamlessly work across the web and mobile. It'll be a couple months before it's rea…

If you can make it dense (like Reader), I'll happily pay. Also, please charge. Give people 5-10 feeds for free, but let me pay <$10/mo (or like $25/yr prepaid) for a power user version.

I have every intention of charging; it wouldn't be very sustainable, otherwise, y'know? :)

Re: More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours

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Post by smsm42 »

saljam wrote: post #94
Confusion wrote: post #72

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A good lower limit. Not everyone has the time or inclination to take immediate action. I'm a heavy user of Google Reader and I haven't yet taken an action. I probably won't for at least a few weeks. What is baffling is that Google can't or won't monetize a product with that many users.

You should also count for the people who switched to an RSS reader that isn't Feedly. I, for one, started using The Old Reader.

I tried that too. Currently there are 10000+ users in front of me in import queue. I hope they will be able to process it till July...

Re: More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours

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Post by Samuel_Michon »

hellweaver666 wrote: post #84
Confusion wrote: post #72

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A good lower limit. Not everyone has the time or inclination to take immediate action. I'm a heavy user of Google Reader and I haven't yet taken an action. I probably won't for at least a few weeks. What is baffling is that Google can't or won't monetize a product with that many users.

Same here... I read all my news through Reeder on the iPad. I won't be taking action until I find out what services they plan to add to replace Google Reader.

Exactly. I'm waiting for word from the Reeder and NetNewsWire developers. Depending on the solutions (and timeframe) they come up with, I'm staying with Reeder or going back to NetNewsWire.

Re: More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours

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Post by georgeoliver »

k3n wrote: post #98
georgeoliver wrote: post #48

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Actually I had to make the same changes to Reader.

For background tabs, Reader doesn't require an extension. All links should be normal tags, just middle-click (or right-click > new tab) and it opens behind Reader.

It has been a long time since I checked, but it didn't work for the keyboard shortcut ('v' I think in Reader?)

Re: More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours

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Post by Samuel_Michon »

maratd wrote: post #76
rmrfrmrf wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Until your favorite blogs realize that RSS is just a money sink and shut down their feeds, which is exactly what Google is subtly prophesying and no one seems to get.

> RSS is just a money sink You guys are missing the most obvious point and the big boys have already figured it out. Subscribe to Engadget, Gizmodo, etc. What you'll get is an excerpt of the story with a "click this link to read the rest". After I click, I'm on their site. I want to read/post comments? I'm on their site. RSS is free advertising for content providers and a way to get more eyeballs. Google is foolish f…

I don't subscribe to feeds that don't syndicate full posts. The last few years, many feeds have switched to paid membership or putting separate ad posts in the stream, "This week RSS is brought to you by X". I'm fine with either of those solutions.
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