https://dreamwidth-meta.dreamwidth.org/ Dreamwidth Meta - Dreamwidth Studios Sat, 16 Mar 2013 23:45:00 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios dreamwidth_meta community https://dreamwidth-meta.dreamwidth.org/6594.html Sat, 16 Mar 2013 23:45:00 GMT https://dreamwidth-meta.dreamwidth.org/6594.html Posted by: <span lj:user='foxfirefey' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://foxfirefey.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://foxfirefey.dreamwidth.org/'><b>foxfirefey</b></a></span><br /><br /><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-second-spring-of-cleaning.html">Google is shutting Google Reader down July 1stt</a>--many people used it as a reading page for the wider internet. It was a very efficient way to consume lots of data from many sources in a way much faster and more reliable than Twitter, Facebook, G+, or other social media.<br /><br />Some talk about <a href="http://corte.si/posts/socialmedia/rip-google-reader.html">how Google Reader destroyed the ecosytem around it</a>--it was good and free and thus cut the legs out from under its competitors. <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/+YonatanZunger/posts/Br8hk1KjY1U">Yonatan Zunger, a project lead at Google, made a G+ post asking people what they liked so much about Reader.</a> He quickly received 500 comments (consisting of about 53,000 words) in commentary. Some are <a href="http://alastairadversaria.wordpress.com/2013/03/14/a-lament-for-google-reader/">lamenting the loss of private reading</a>. (Others might disagree their Reader use was private, except that Google killed built in Reader sharing two years ago.) Some are <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericgoldman/2013/03/14/how-the-shutdown-of-google-reader-threatens-the-internet/">positioning the shutdown of Google Reader as a threat to the internet</a> and <a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/view/512566/unintentional-interfaces-google-readers-censorship-busting-power-will-be-hard-to/">acknowledging Google Reader's censorship busting power as something hard to replace</a>. BuzzFeed says <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/jwherrman/google-reader-still-sends-far-more-traffic-than-google">Google Reader still sends them more traffic than G+.</a> Some people like to think <a href="http://blog.calbucci.com/2013/03/google-is-about-to-learn-tough-lesson.html">Google is about to learn a tough lesson</a>, but others disagree.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=dreamwidth_meta&ditemid=6594" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://dreamwidth-meta.dreamwidth.org/6594.html syndication ecosystems rss public foxfirefey 6