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Nick Bradbury  
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 More options Oct 20 2011, 11:11 pm
From: Nick Bradbury <nick.bradb...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 20:11:57 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Thurs, Oct 20 2011 11:11 pm
Subject: Is Google Reader being retired?
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I hate to ask this, but I have to: is Google preparing to retire Reader?
Today's blog post<http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2011/10/upcoming-changes-to-reader-n...>about upcoming Reader changes discusses how to export your data in case you
"feel like the product is no longer for you." That's an odd thing to say in
the context of highlighting upcoming changes - that sounds to me like Google
plans to discontinue Reader, and is letting people (esp. popular bloggers?)
know how to extract their data well in advance.

I realize that we're using an unofficial API, so we have no right to
complain about any changes to it (instead we should be thankful to have been
able to use it for so long). But at the same time, the Reader team is well
aware that developers such as myself are using their API in our software,
and some of us rely on this software to generate an income. So it seems like
common courtesy to give us a heads up about any changes.

Which I guess is why I'm asking about Reader's retirement: I'd simply like
to know in advance so I can prepare for it, and so I can prepare my
customers for it.


 
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secou  
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 More options Oct 21 2011, 4:01 am
From: secou <s.courr...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 01:01:46 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Fri, Oct 21 2011 4:01 am
Subject: Re: Is Google Reader being retired?
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I'm am one of the many who use Google Reader (and FeedDemon)... for
professionnal purpose (800 feeds). One of the most valuable feature for me
is tag/folder public sharing. I use the so generated blogs to produce Atom
feeds devoted to thematic watches served to clients. A very very powerfull
feature. This announce is just unrespectfull to many of us and certainly not
a good decision for their own business, because they'll lose a bunch of
professionnal users) ! Hope they will maintain even a basic API wich could
help developpers (like you Nick) to create new valuable features.


 
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