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Re: Google Reader is dead

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Post by zeckalpha » Wed, Jul 03, 2013, 1:37 PM UTC

porker wrote: post #207

Aloisius wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or Common Crawl so other people could actually download and use it?

I didn't realise you couldn't download and use the data from Internet Archive. If not, that's pretty silly to back up the feeds to them, and I'm a bit annoyed to have contributed. I'd like to make them available to everyone to download, analyse, plug into their reader etc etc etc...

You can from the Internet Archive. The GGP is talking about Twingly, and the discussion is about integrating their data with the Archive Team.

Re: Google Reader is dead

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Post by jmcqk6 » Wed, Jul 03, 2013, 3:14 PM UTC

batiudrami wrote: post #71

bdz wrote: post #28

"... we’re pouring all of our energy into fewer products. We think that kind of focus will make for a better user experience." Yeah, Reader held back the development of the robot car, glasses, floating balloon internet and the brazilian social site...

I'm pretty sick of this argument. Google is a company, they are not compelled to continue to support a product which is (presumably) not making money, or even if the resources they devote to it could be making more money elsewhere. Honestly I think Google went above and beyond by giving advance notice, having an API which allows feed exporting and allowing subscriptions to continue to be exported after they close it…

> went above and beyond by giving advance notice, having an API which allows feed exporting and allowing subscriptions to continue to be exported after they close it down for those who ignored the advance notice as well as linking to alternative products.

As a side note, I hate that this is seen as "above and beyond" instead of "standard industry practice"

Re: Google Reader is dead

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Post by finnw » Wed, Jul 03, 2013, 7:23 PM UTC

ciniglio wrote: post #105

If you're looking for a new reader to try, check out www.readuction.com . It's a different take on RSS, that intelligently gives you fewer articles to read. A friend and I built it over a few months, and we'd love any feedback you have. You can import and export your feeds, so no need to worry about having data locked in.

Looks good. But how do you resync?

Re: Google Reader is dead

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Post by Aloisius » Thu, Jul 04, 2013, 1:36 AM UTC

zeckalpha wrote: post #211

porker wrote: post #207

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn't realise you couldn't download and use the data from Internet Archive. If not, that's pretty silly to back up the feeds to them, and I'm a bit annoyed to have contributed. I'd like to make them available to everyone to download, analyse, plug into their reader etc etc etc...

You can from the Internet Archive. The GGP is talking about Twingly, and the discussion is about integrating their data with the Archive Team.

For anything substantial (like say, their actual crawl), they'll only do it on a case by case basis with a rather restrictive license and you have to drive up there and plop down the machines to copy it onto.

Re: Google Reader is dead

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Post by chii » Thu, Jul 04, 2013, 3:42 AM UTC

LoganCale wrote: post #205

sentenza wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hm. They managed to lose me as a G+ user by discontinuing Google Reader, since Reader was the centerpoint of all my sharing activity.

And they've lost me for everything but Gmail (so far) as a result of the Reader shutdown (and other things).

its a bit annoying since an email address is tied to so many things - if google starts screwing with gmail, i m gonna be screwed hard =(