Without a viable RSS reader, I would dramatically reduce the sources of news I consult, probably by 90% or more.
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Now, with Google Reader set to shut down, The Old Reader may be the RSS Reader that most closely resembles the disappearing product.
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The whole goal of RockMelt is to integrate Facebook into the browser, with some Twitter on the side and a basic RSS reader if you really want.
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There was a lot of buzz online about this decision, and some fanatical Google Reader fans put together a petition to keep the RSS reader alive.
Embrace some randomness: Put strange things in your RSS reader.
Otherwise, the specs aren't too far off its predecessor, including the same 8GB, 16GB, and 32GB options, a microSD card slot for further expansion, a built-in microphone and FM radio, an RSS reader (which must be synced up with your PC).
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Without an obvious RSS reader alternative to Google Reader (and with heightened fears that any replacement RSS reader might exit the market, just like Google and Bloglines), some folks will simply give up on RSS altogether and rely exclusively on social media, email alerts or bookmarks.
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That's not it, however, since the project also lists plans for social networking apps like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, as well as an account and file manager, document viewer, RSS reader and even a terminal -- the latter, naturally, should make Android rooters feel right at home.
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And essentially, it allows you to sign up or subscribe to for free to your favorite websites that offer this RSS technology, and then you download an RSS reader, a simple program that you download on your computer that allows you to receive any updates that you subscribe to.
In a blogpost, the company revealed that the sharing features on its RSS news reader would soon be removed.
Second, Google announced that RSS service Google Reader would be shut down.
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In his blog, he added:" "Google destroyed the RSS feed-reader ecosystem with a subsidised product, stifling its competitors and killing innovation.
That diminished return is solved in Google Reader and other RSS services.
Reader, and RSS feeds in general, remain popular with active, Web-savvy users who rely upon them to pull together the best of the Internet in one easy-to-read stream.
And speaking of trending topics, the extinction of Reader signifies the mainstream rejection of RSS as a hands-on tool for organizing a living library of real-time information flow.
It was just very awkward to browse and follow Tumblr content through Google Reader or through NetNewsWire, through those RSS readers.
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Google Reader launched in 2005, when Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds were a new way to keep tabs on favourite websites and blogs.
And using Google Reader is comparable to having a second Gmail inbox, to which one can direct RSS feeds instead of flooding a private inbox with newsletters.
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Both Podscope and Podzinger allow you to save RSS feeds of your searches to view when your search term comes up again via a feed reader like Bloglines or Yahoo!'
Other terms you may have seen or other acronyms you may have seen are RSS, and you'll see these little orange boxes maybe that says XML or RSS on your favorite websites, that stands for really simple syndication, which is what this reader.google.com site does.
The absolute best thing about using RSS feeds is that after you have everything set up, you can scan the jobs in your reader from anywhere you have internet or mobile access.
But as Reader grew in dominance, not only did it kill off much of the competition, many RSS tools started to rely in the Google service as a back-end for their apps.
Kevin Fox, a former Google employee who worked for several years on the Google Reader project before leaving the company, has offered to help Google fix its popular once-social RSS service.
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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).
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