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Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by jap »

tracker1 wrote: post #391
vacipr wrote: post #4

What the fuck. Later edit: Like many other will most likely do in their replies I'm also going to suggest an alternative that I've tried in the past. http://theoldreader.com/ Later edit 2: They even added a nice pop-up now. https://s3.amazonaws.com/i.imm.io/Zg6A.png

Well.. was going to sign in with my google account, but they seem to want "manage my contacts" permission.

Could be an oversight. I think "manage my contacts" is a default permission requested when not explicitely setting the scope in OAuth...

Re: Google Reader shutting down

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Post by Dylan16807 »

subsection1h wrote: post #496
philgoetz wrote: post #398

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I never found Google Code Search useful. What I wanted to be able to do was to search for code expressions with Google -- to be able, for instance, to search for the words "C++" or "call-next-method", exactly as I type them, punctuation and casing and all. No synonyms, no "corrections", no singular/plural conversions, no punctuation-stripping. Google never provided a way to search for exactly what I asked it to searc…

Google's Verbatim tool doesn't do the job? http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...

Verbatim doesn't even fully disable word corrections. There is no way at all to search for punctuation characters. Try it yourself, type in ((((())))) or something and look at all zero results.

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Post by villesundberg »

I think we all saw this coming when G+ took over some of Reader's functionality.

I've been working on a news solution of my own, Scoopinion, since 2011. It's a discovery engine that ranks articles based on how closely they've been read. Users install a browser extension that lets them track their own reading (within a set of whitelisted sites). It's a little bit of quantified self for news. The data is used for recommendations and to help journalists in their work.

It's not a drop-in replacement for Reader since you don't get the full firehose of headlines from your feeds, only the most engaging stories.

https://www.scoopinion.com

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Post by netfeed »

TillE wrote: post #380
spindritf wrote: post #282

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> What do you guys recommend for replacement? That's the hard part. Reader integrates nicely with Android's Listen (podcast app), and the reader app, and there's plenty of standalone clients that sync with Google. That's my most-used Google app. By far. Colossal disappointment.

Nice to know that there's still at least one other Google Listen user in the world. I'm a huge podcast consumer, I like listening to old podcasts which have fallen off the RSS feed, and I still haven't found anything better. I honestly don't know what I'm going to do now. As far as I'm aware, nobody besides Google has been archiving RSS history for the past few years. It's a massive pain to dig for old podcast episod…

Listen was better, but i kinda like PocketCasts, the only problem with that one is that it eats up battery :/

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Post by pilooch »

Just thought I would mention that you can use XPLR unsupervised machine learning API https://xplr.com/developers/ to build your own feed reader in the manner of https://xplr.com/products/illuminate/browser/ Though this probably applies more to RSS reader developers than end users. In a way, you can build your own little Prismatic-like app, tailored to your needs, or just play with AI and news :)

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Post by xentronium »

rdl wrote: post #346
mcovey wrote: post #342

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2 more for search, Yandex is growing fast and getting really good, and DuckDuckGo of course. I've been using Yandex a lot lately. Their products are getting more available in English, in fact they have webmail with a built-in RSS reader that resembles google reader.

DDG is essentially passthrough to Google/Bing/Blekko, though, so you're still somewhat exposed to the risk of those companies being crazy. Although I guess 3 is enough that DDG should be able to survive even if 1-2 go crazy or die. It's perhaps somewhat nationalist, but Russian companies are slightly above Chinese companies on my list of "would I want my traffic going through their infrastructure", from a privacy/inf…

My vouch wouldn't probably mean much, but yandex are by and large not-evil guys. They can be forced to abide the law, but I believe they haven't willfully done anything really unethical yet. Unfortunately, yandex search is inferior to google for English queries, which diminishes their usefulness a lot.

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Post by k_bx »

plinkplonk wrote: post #428

The real winner here might be Prismatic. They already do awesome machine learning based discovery. If they'd add an RSS reader (not just RSS feeds into their discovery machine) they'll get every one of millions of users moving off Google Reader. Due Disclosure: Though I have no official connection to Prismatic, founder Bradford Cross is a friend and I am biased to Prismatic. It is awesome. Try it at http://getprismat…

While I like prismatic a lot, it builds on idea of a filtering bubble that you put yourself into. So it's better for finding something that you'll be interested in and you already know that (since it's in your interests, and your friends quote on that), but it's absolutely orthogonal to rss reader.
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