News: The Old Reader - winner of the RSS reader replacement for google reader



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We are just days away from the end of Google Reader. This pretty much killed off my normal news gathering model. So I had to find a replacement. I've logged in and I've tested them all (all the ones that were highly touted). Some of these RSS readers are very pretty, probably great for a touch screen environment. Some were slow, some not finished, some just in Beta (DIGG)... I was really worried that nothing would match up to the google reader experience... but if you are looking for the most similar experience to Google reader then The Old Reader is the only game in town. http://theoldreader.com/ . It scrolls fast, loads pages fast, auto marks pages as read. Still some glitchy things, but it works for me.

Google also killed the old video search to RSS, so I had to recreate those as well. I dumped a whole bunch of stale website RSS feeds as well. So you can see why google stopped doing this product... Facebook and G+ are really killing the independent web site. We are gradually being persuaded that the only content comes from these giant continents of social media, Facebook and G+. They are good, they are quick, they are connected... but there is no real individuality. There strength comes from everything being the same. I'm interested to see if Google are thinking RSS is batch model of updating and they are moving to real time messaging... will anything new come from google to cover that paradigm? I just keep my fingers crossed that whatever it is, it does not kill the blogger platform... so watch this space.

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