Maybe someone can help me out here.  I've read in several places that
'RSS is dead.'  I use Google Reader every day.  I love being able to
peruse snippets from sites I like and read only what I want.  Soooo if
RSS is going the way of the dinosaur... What is the replacement?  You
can't tell me that the Reader concept isn't completely valid...can
you?

On Jan 21, 8:45 am, Cary Preston <[email protected]> wrote:
> More proof that RSS is on its way out, and the apocalypse is nigh: Google has 
> seemingly replaced the top link to its RSS reader product, Google Reader, 
> with a link to ‘Photos’ (Picasa) at the top of the Gmail web interface. To be 
> clear, the link is still there, it’s just hidden behind the ‘More ▼’ link now.
>
> Boy, that place has really started falling apart since Larry Page took over 
> as CEO.
>
> Sure, it’s a minor UI change, but that isn’t stopping users from going nuts 
> about it on Twitter.
>
> A couple of choice tweets:
>
> Another user posits: “Where the F**k is my link to Google Reader in 
> Gmail?!??! I’m sure they can see in Analytics that I use it every single day…”
>
> And therein lies the problem, I think. You can customize Gmail to a degree, 
> and – particularly for a free product – that’s really awesome, but you can’t 
> yet change the order of the top menu items – and that’s what’s getting users 
> riled up.
>
> Maybe Google will listen to this vocal subset of users, maybe they won’t. But 
> I think it may be better if we don’t wait to see what happens, and instead a 
> TechCrunch-reading developer immediately starts coding a browser extension 
> that puts the damn ‘Reader’ link back. Go!
>
> CrunchBase Information
> Google Reader
> Gmail
> Information provided by CrunchBase
>
> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/rVtfiQLqwWI/
>
> Sent with MobileRSS HD

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