These web companies prove over and over again that it's not possible to trust them with your data. What would stop Google from killing your gmail or docs when they don't see it as valuable anymore? The worst part is how the big guys kill all competition with their free products leaving few alternatives for users.
Google Reader shutting down
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#122what the fuck google? seriously, I'm really pissed with this.
ok Pocket, it's time for you guys to add rss reading support
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#123This has been a long time coming. Four years ago I began work on my own feed reader, NewsBlur, and it's now a full-fledged Google Reader competitor. It's also a paid app and has been paying for itself nearly since the beginning. http://www.newsblur.com I hope HN finds NewsBlur useful, especially since it's got native mobile apps on iOS (iPhone+iPad), Android, Windows Phone, and Nokia MeeGo. Native story sharing was l…
Is there a way to import your google reader list into it?
It's taking like forever to import from reader.
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#124These web companies prove over and over again that it's not possible to trust them with your data. What would stop Google from killing your gmail or docs when they don't see it as valuable anymore? The worst part is how the big guys kill all competition with their free products leaving few alternatives for users.
You can get all your Gmail data over standard IMAP. If you don't take advantage that to make personal backups, you are a fool.
Is there software that connects over IMAP and archives all your mail into one file? Not an email client.
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#125I'm seriously digging Feedly right now. Took 12 seconds to get into it and everything just makes sense. I wish I had found this ages ago. No need to backup your feeds, it uses your google account for now.
Feedly depends on Google Reader for now, IIRC.
edit: They're fixing it! http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/14/google-reader/
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#126Google Reader is irreplaceable, it is not only about reading RSS. That is the easy part. It is about going back in time and accessing all past feeds in an organized way (it is difficult to rebuilt that from crawling and web scraping). If you add a blog now you can read articles that are not present in the current feed.
Google Reader is the core of my information diet. Not twitter. Thousands of blogs starred, liked, and commented. An interesting feature that you couldn't replace is automatic translation: reading a russian blog asmit was written in english. Once I shared one of its articles and one friend asked me if I knew russian or if it was a joke my share! Because obviously the share was in the original language.
Google is evil. While I can understand a business decision, there are ways to hand it over to other companies or organizations.
I share some of my previous criticism:
- Extraction of Main Text Content Using the Google Reader NoAPI: http://blog.databigbang.com/extraction-of-main-text-content/
-Google Search NoAPI: http://blog.databigbang.com/google-search-no-api/
- The Data Portability Fact Sheet: http://blog.databigbang.com/the-data-portability-fact-sheet/
- Reverse Engineering and the Cloud: http://blog.nektra.com/main/2012/06/01/reverse-engineering-a...
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#127I'm going to move all my feeds over to FriendFeed.
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#128This has been a long time coming. Four years ago I began work on my own feed reader, NewsBlur, and it's now a full-fledged Google Reader competitor. It's also a paid app and has been paying for itself nearly since the beginning. http://www.newsblur.com I hope HN finds NewsBlur useful, especially since it's got native mobile apps on iOS (iPhone+iPad), Android, Windows Phone, and Nokia MeeGo. Native story sharing was l…
It is often asked of startup founders 'what if Google starts doing what you do?', a valid question. Perhaps it is worth contemplating products too small for Google to concern themselves with, ones they might abandon, that would still be an attractive opportunity for the rest of us. I've been rooting for you and recall enjoying the blog posts about its making - I've always figured that "RSS is dead" and there is no lo…
" now would be a great time to start building it."
Now is too late. The right time to have started building it was 2-6 months ago. Now is the time to market an existing solution.
Citing the great gretzky quote, the "puck" is already here.
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#129I've used it every day for years... Anyone run an instance of http://www.feedafever.com ? How is it?
I use Fever full time. It's great, apart from the lack of native apps. That's the only thing that makes me resent it sometime. Their claims are true, too, it really does help cut back the noise and stops you reading the same story over and over. It's kind of nice to know that I own it, too, so nobody can just take it away.
Unless you mean 'native app made by Fever', Reeder and Sunstroke [2] are good iOS apps with Fever support.
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Why are they shutting it down? Because they would rather that you use Google+. The writing was on the wall when they started disabling features a year or two ago.
How are you supposed to use RSS with G+? Wouldn't that be a mess?
G+ is already a mess, so wouldn't make much of a difference.