And the closing of a service like Google Reader is teaching consumers that they may need to pony up a few bucks for the third-party version that replaces it.
His company finds and removes personal information from the Internet a service mostly being used by Baby Boomers (and as one reader points out, even more Gen Xers).
There are third-party apps for feed-reading, but Google Reader remains both the dominant client and nearly the only back-end syncing service underpinning the entire RSS experience (a position the company actively pursued).