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Mike Whybark

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Mar 13, 2013, 7:46:37 PM3/13/13
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http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2013/03/powering-down-google-reader.html

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Rafael

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Mar 13, 2013, 8:02:57 PM3/13/13
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I still can't believe they are doing this to us, even if we are less than before, we are really loyal to Google Reader, I can't imagine using another reader and I deeply hope Google will change it's minds.

I know Googles is a company and have to look for profits, but that's no way to treat such loyal users like us, we deserve an Google alternative, even if they have to make us use Google+, I don't care, I just want my feed the way it is now.

Steve Conover

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Mar 13, 2013, 8:22:02 PM3/13/13
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"usage of Google Reader has declined"

lol I wonder why?
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colin j

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Mar 13, 2013, 8:43:02 PM3/13/13
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ASGDALDSHGJAHLDSG;DJGA

They can't even offer to sell it off or something?  No one in their group wants to make something of it? 

colin j

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Mar 13, 2013, 8:46:40 PM3/13/13
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...or could they donate the code?  They're not using it, obvs.

William Toll

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Mar 13, 2013, 9:53:41 PM3/13/13
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OMFG.  WOW!  Google Reader is my most important asset. 9,543 feeds - all in nice folders.

What will I do with 90 minutes extra a day?

What a way to sour the perception of a brand within the marketing community.

Ugh now they are all evil (I was in denial).

@utollwi

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Sebastian De la Cadena

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Mar 14, 2013, 2:28:03 AM3/14/13
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That's my answer, hate g+


Steve Conover

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Mar 14, 2013, 2:54:48 AM3/14/13
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Honestly, Prismatic is the answer.

Looks like feedly's getting a lot of love too.

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:28 PM, Sebastian De la Cadena <sebastian...@gmail.com> wrote:

That's my answer, hate g+

Juan Luis Chulilla

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Mar 14, 2013, 3:56:04 AM3/14/13
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What about the old reader?

I'm terrified about the fashion of transforming plain simple rss readers in fancy, graphical tablet apps which are totally inefficient for filtering or feeds quickly

Artem

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Mar 14, 2013, 5:04:55 AM3/14/13
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The Reader died the moment they cut social funtionarity.  Now it's just a feed reading app which can be replaced.


On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Juan Luis Chulilla <chul...@gmail.com> wrote:

What about the old reader?

I'm terrified about the fashion of transforming plain simple rss readers in fancy, graphical tablet apps which are totally inefficient for filtering or feeds quickly

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Mike Whybark

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Mar 14, 2013, 9:25:55 AM3/14/13
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got a link, Steve?

Tim Broder

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Mar 14, 2013, 10:00:00 AM3/14/13
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Mike Whybark

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Mar 14, 2013, 10:13:25 AM3/14/13
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found prismatic. 

so far it seems to suffer from the general undiscoverability of many mobile-oriented projects

Mike Whybark

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Mar 14, 2013, 10:20:21 AM3/14/13
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new suggestion from that lifehacker article is netvibes.com



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Bill Bahng Boyer

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Mar 14, 2013, 10:31:08 AM3/14/13
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I prefer theoldreader.com. We have an active social scene developing there.

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Andrew Hickey

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Mar 14, 2013, 11:17:57 AM3/14/13
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Yeah, theoldreader.com is pretty great. Only problem is that it
requires logging in with either Google or Facebook, rather than having
its own logon system or implementing OpenID or something. Other than
that it's perfect.

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Bill Bahng Boyer <bill...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I prefer theoldreader.com. We have an active social scene developing
> there.
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Mar 14, 2013, at 10:20 AM, Mike Whybark <mwhy...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> new suggestion from that lifehacker article is netvibes.com
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>
> On Thursday, March 14, 2013, Tim Broder wrote:
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>> http://lifehacker.com/5990456/google-reader-is-getting-shut-down-here-are-the-best-alternatives
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>> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Mike Whybark <mwhy...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> got a link, Steve?
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>>>
>>> On Wednesday, March 13, 2013, Steve Conover wrote:
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>>>> Honestly, Prismatic is the answer.
>>>>
>>>> Looks like feedly's getting a lot of love too.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:28 PM, Sebastian De la Cadena
>>>> <sebastian...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> That's my answer, hate g+
>>>>>
>>>>>
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