The Mayan Calendar did not herald the end of the world, but Google certainly has brought a calamitous scramble in the digital world with the end, demise, retirement, shut down of its Google Reader service.
Today, 30 June is the final day of its existence and tomorrow will be a new world - to crib, cry and moan about which is the best RSS reader after Google Reader’s retirement.
If you have not yet switched over to another service, do so now - and personally I suggest either Feedly or Digg Reader, both of which are (have) free versions.
Digg Reader is the latest and newest service on the block, developed in about 90 days by the Digg team as a replacement for Google Reader. Digg Reader has been open to public from Friday and though it has minimal functionality (as of today), its simple interface looks real good to me. There is an iOS version of Digg Reader but not an Android app yet.
For that reason alone - the absence of Android app - I would prefer to stick on to Feedly for the present. Feedly by itself is a terrific reader and almost 3 million Google Reader users have reportedly switched on to Feedly.
Even if you are still debating on the new service (or even use both for now - as I have done), today is the last chance to save the subscription or feeds info from Google Reader. That functionality is called ‘Export Subscriptions’ You can do it by going to Settings, Import/Export and follow the steps to export subscriptions to Google Takeout, which can then be download as a ZIP file. Almost all RSS readers can import subscriptions (saved as an XML file) easily.
Whatever services we switch over to - from Feedly, Digg Reader or any other, Google Reader was a great product which transformed reading news. Switching to Google Reader (and RSS feeds) really de-cluttered my email inbox to a fair degree.
My mischievous half murmurs is, ‘Will Google release a Doodle on the retirement, death, demise, or end of Google Reader?’. I really do not know and have a feeling that Google will not put up a Doodle for Google Reader.
So what? Here is a Moodle instead of a Google Doodle on the demise of Google Reader.
;-)
Today, 30 June is the final day of its existence and tomorrow will be a new world - to crib, cry and moan about which is the best RSS reader after Google Reader’s retirement.
If you have not yet switched over to another service, do so now - and personally I suggest either Feedly or Digg Reader, both of which are (have) free versions.
Digg Reader is the latest and newest service on the block, developed in about 90 days by the Digg team as a replacement for Google Reader. Digg Reader has been open to public from Friday and though it has minimal functionality (as of today), its simple interface looks real good to me. There is an iOS version of Digg Reader but not an Android app yet.
For that reason alone - the absence of Android app - I would prefer to stick on to Feedly for the present. Feedly by itself is a terrific reader and almost 3 million Google Reader users have reportedly switched on to Feedly.
Even if you are still debating on the new service (or even use both for now - as I have done), today is the last chance to save the subscription or feeds info from Google Reader. That functionality is called ‘Export Subscriptions’ You can do it by going to Settings, Import/Export and follow the steps to export subscriptions to Google Takeout, which can then be download as a ZIP file. Almost all RSS readers can import subscriptions (saved as an XML file) easily.
Whatever services we switch over to - from Feedly, Digg Reader or any other, Google Reader was a great product which transformed reading news. Switching to Google Reader (and RSS feeds) really de-cluttered my email inbox to a fair degree.
My mischievous half murmurs is, ‘Will Google release a Doodle on the retirement, death, demise, or end of Google Reader?’. I really do not know and have a feeling that Google will not put up a Doodle for Google Reader.
So what? Here is a Moodle instead of a Google Doodle on the demise of Google Reader.
;-)
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