Article 3KHBY Five years after Google conquered and abandoned RSS, the news-reader ecosystem is showing green shoots

Five years after Google conquered and abandoned RSS, the news-reader ecosystem is showing green shoots

by
Cory Doctorow
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RSS was a revelation for blogging and online media; we got our first RSS feed in 2001 and I have relied heavily on RSS feeds to write this site (and stay informed) for nearly two decades now; in 2005, Google bet heavily on RSS with its Google Reader product, which quickly eclipsed every other reader, so that by the time they killed it in 2013, there wasn't anything sophisticated, robust and well-maintained to switch to. (more")

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