Well, enough people must have grumbled because the Reader link is back up where it belongs (beside the Photos like) as of this morning.
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Cary Preston <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/<http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/Techcrunch/%7E3/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]<theuniquegeek%[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]<theuniquegeek%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. > > -- Jennifer "Scraps" Walker Queen of the Helper Monkeys Better living through creativity... and cocktails! http://www.scrapsoflife.com/blog -- 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.
