Utter nonsense. Im an RSS addict as well, there's no alternative for me to satisfy my news / minutia / weird stuff addiction. I have read about efforts to create a more social platform, but I'm skeptical. To be honest Facebook itself has become kind of boring; I don't want the principles behind it creeping into more of my online life. Maybe I'm a curmudgeon, but if I find something too fascinating not to share I'll fire it out to the parties I think will like it via email.
On Jan 21, 2011, at 8:54 AM, Race <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Unique Geek" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en.
