If you follow my writing, you probably know how much I love Google Reader. As you can imagine, this stopped me in my tracks.
That’s right. On July 1st, Google Reader says goodbye. The Learn More takes you to a page that tells you what you can export using their Google Takeout tool, but nothing in the way of alternatives.
Now there is three and a half months to find a suitable alternative.
A Little About How I Use(d) Google Reader
I follow a lot of blogs and various RSS feeds. 242 subscriptions to be exact.
Each time I subscribe to a blog, I organize them by topic (Blogging, Freelance, Social Media, SEO, etc.). Then I rename each subscription with the blog’s main Twitter handle. This way, when I want to tweet a post I like, I don’t have to search for their @username. Plus, when I’m ready to periodically purge my RSS feeds, I can look at the Twitter handles and figure out quickly whether I have engaged with them or not.
I also use(d) the search in Google Reader for curating content. It made it easy to find posts on a specific topic so I could create lists like 79 Link Building Resources for 2012.
How to Export Your Google Reader RSS Feeds & Subscriptions
The first thing you will want to do is export your RSS subscriptions in Google Reader. To do this, you can go to Google Takeout and click the Create Archive button.
You will then get to download a zip file of your Google Reader subscriptions.
In this zip file, you will find your subscriptions.xml which you can use to import your RSS feeds from Google Reader to other services.
My Favorite Google Reader Alternatives
Now that you know handle RSS feeds, here are the alternatives I am considering. I migrate from laptop to desktop to mobile, so I am only choosing web-based RSS readers that also play well on my iPhone. There are others if you want to install them to your computer like Feeddemon for Windows and Reeder for Mac. The following are my web-based favorites so far.
Feedly
Feedly works with Chrome, Firefox, and mobile devices and syncs with Google Reader to manage your RSS feeds. They are working on a system to transition all of your feeds from Google Reader into Feedly before July 1st.
Their platform allows you to display your subscriptions with titles only, magazine style, timeline with thumbnails, mosaic, or full articles. They also have a search option that lets you look through all of your subscriptions or subscriptions in a particular section.
At the bottom, you can also see results from the blogosphere. They have social sharing buttons and the option to save your favorite articles. Plus there is a number next to posts that is supposed to represent the number of Facebook Likes + Google +1′s a post has received. It doens’t always seem accurate, but it’s a good indicator of the popularity of a post.
They also have a mobile app with a nice display for your subscriptions.
Netvibes
Netvibes allows you to subscribe to RSS feeds and view them in a Reader (list) or Widgets view. Simply create a free account and click the +Add Content button at the top left of your screen. There you will find the option to import your subscriptions.xml file. Netvibes will import your feeds as you have them organized from Google Reader folders to Netvibes tabs.
I personally find the Reader view loads faster than the Widgets view. Within the Reader view, you can use the dropdown on the right side to switch from List (titles only), Expanded (titles and full article / summary) or Mosaic (thumbnails) view. You can also select themes to stylize your reader.
The one thing missing from Netvibes? Search. So far, I haven’t found a good way to search your feeds besides using the browser’s CTRL+F option which only gets you results that have loaded on the page vs. searching the entire RSS feed history. Load time was also slow, but it could be due to the number of people searching for Google Reader alternatives. That and the Lifehacker article that went live while I was testing. Otherwise, not a bad choice. They also have a clean interface for mobile browsing.
Newsblur
Next on the list is Newsblur. Once you have created an account, you will be taken through a Get Started guide that allows you to import directly from Google Reader.
After you import your feeds, you will get the option to stay with a free account with a limited number of feeds automatically selected by their system or upgrade to a mega account to have all of your feeds for $12 per year.
Unfortunately, at the time of writing this, their system was mostly down. In response, they tweeted this.
I expect newsblur.com to be unresponsive as 1000s of new users flee Reader. For you, lovely followers, use dev.newsblur.com.
— NewsBlur (@NewsBlur) March 13, 2013
They seem to have a lot of great features, including the ability to save stories and even publish your favorites quickly to your own Blurblog. They are planning a revamp in the next week or two which should mean more features ty check out. Hopefully the main site will include my Twitter handles and a search.
Why You Need to Write About This
Do you have a lot of subscribers in Google Reader? You can find out by subscribing to your own RSS feed in Google Reader, clicking on the dropdown next to the feed, and selecting View Details and Statistics.
This is the number of subscribers you stand to lose in July. And you can’t trust that they will see your updates on social media (see my post on Facebook Edgerank for more on that) or that they’ll come back to subscribe to all of their blogs via email before the shutdown.
It doesn’t matter that every other blog is probably going to cover this story. You need to cover it for your audience. They trust you most!
If RSS subscribers are important to your readership, then you will need to educate your readers today on how to transfer their subscriptions from Google Reader to a Google Reader Alternative of their choosing. The more subscribers you can educate, the more subscribers you will keep.
Your Google Reader Alternatives
Now it’s your turn. What RSS reader are you using or planning to use once Google Reader disappears?
PS. Join the 45K signature strong petition to keep Google Reader alive at Change.org!
PPS. If you plan on abandoning RSS altogether, be sure to subscribe to my updates via email using the box below!
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Just what I was looking for Kristi!
I was amazed too when I just checked my RSS just now and got this same message, and was wondering what to do, when I found your post – awesome timing.
One is so used to Google reader and like you, I have it all topped us with various things. I liked what you wrote about managing it all by putting their Twitter handle – makes things so much easier.
I love your alternatives, though I’ve also heard some people talk of Feedblitz – how is that if you have tried it? Some people have already switched to that as I started getting a re-direct from the reader to that one.
From your list I guess Netvibes or Feedly would be good choices to consider, though need to look them up further. If all works well and Feedly does manage to work on their system to transit all the feeds from Reader – it would be the best. Heading right over and checking both of these.
Thanks so much for sharing these alternatives with us.
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You’re welcome! Feedblitz isn’t a RSS reader – it’s currently everyone’s backup plan if Google decides to kill off Feedburner next. They stopped supporting the Feedburner APIs, so it’s probably a matter of time. I’m not a fan of Feedblitz because you have to pay for email subscribers to your RSS which is free with Feedburner. I’m thinking if Feedburner goes down, I’ll just stick to Aweber.
Hi Harleena – just like you I was accustomed to using Google Reader and was sad to hear it is being terminated. So far, I have been experimenting with Feedly, and I like it. However, and am also attracted to the free version of NetVibes, but have not had a chance to play with it yet.
Hi Kristi – I am new here and I’m impressed with your helpful tips & info – the definition of great content. I’ll definitely be subscribing to your mailing list.
I hope you continue to enjoy the updates Randall!
Hi Kristi,
Today I entered in G. Reader and I found the same message – ouch! I based all my RSS subscriptions on them with different folders per topic.
I used Feedly, but I stopped using in favor of Google Reader
At that moment, I couldn’t manage properly the order of the subscriptions and what were important to be at the top of the page with it. I don’t know nowadays and as it was expected, Feedly is down, right now.
Sure, everybody is looking for alternatives. I’ll take a look to Netvibes.
Bloglines was good some time ago, any idea about it?
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I was trying to get to Bloglines this evening, but when I logged in, I think it was trying to re-route me to Netvibes for the RSS reader portion. Their main site seems to be about local blogs now.
Thanks for the information Kristi. You’re right, I entered and it appears powered by Netvibes
I received an email from Lisa Irby on her newsletter showing other one: The Old Reader. I’ll take a look from it.
Cheers,
Gera
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I keep hearing about that one too Gera. Going to have to check it out too.
Hi Guys,
Also, we don’t have “Google Alerts” type functionality yet.
If what you want is the ability to skim large #s of headlines, organize lots of feeds, label them, tag articles for later reading in one fast unobtrusive “no magazine layout” reader, SwarmIQ is your choice.
Sign up at http://www.swarmiq.com/register/GOOGLEREADERISDEAD, click on the Google reader icon to get all your feeds, and get up and running straight away.
“Surprise” disclosure: I’m on the team that built this site
I’ll check it out… thanks Gautam!
Thanks Kristi,
For sharing these useful alternatives for Google Reader, I have now switched my all important feeds to “Netvibes”. So far it’s working great.
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Hi Kristi,
If you’re looking for an alternative to skim headlines, please give Skim.Me (http://skim.me) a shot. We’re a startup releasing soon to help you keep up at a glance. I’m a cofounder for full disclosure
Don’t pay attention to the picture on the splash page. We’re redesigning our skimmer from tiles to a list/stream of info (like Reader) but with an updated design.
Best,
Clint
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Thanks for introducing us Clint. I’ll check it out!
Announcement was made few months ago, actually I think that the first time this was mentioned not officially in one of Matt Cutts videos. Definitely one of the wrong turns that Google made! I will check some of these alternatives, or just will use inbuild RSS reader in Ubuntu which is pretty decent.
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Definitely indeed. The petition to save Google Reader is up to 40K signatures now.
Great post and very timely.
It’s sad to see google killing one of the most useful service. Though, there’s a petition going on to keep the Google Reader running https://www.change.org/petitions/google-keep-google-reader-running and more than 15k people have signed it.
If google still decides to kill the service, I am going to use Feedly
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It’s up to 40K right now… very exciting!
Google is shutting down its reader, including the possibility of feedburner?
Whatever the case, I switched away from the Google reader a few months ago and went with another browser “rss” reader called Feeder.
I love it even better and what’s nice every time you hit a new blog, it alerts you of a possible feed url on the blog and with a click of your mouse, you can subscribe easily.
These alternatives look great too and must have a good amount of awesome features as well.
Thanks for the article Kristi
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Feedburner has been rumored to shut down for awhile, especially since they stopped supporting the APIs. I’m holding out hope that they don’t since I don’t want to pay Feedblitz for my RSS email subscribers.
I saw the same message yesterday when I logged into Google Reader. It did bum me out. I am not a big fan of all the Google services, but I do like Reader. I am really not looking forward to testing out the alternatives, although thank you for the suggestions. I know I will end up spending more time than I should trying to find the one I like best. Did they give a reason for closing Reader?
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The reason is supposedly they want to focus on a smaller number of products. My husband thinks it’s all a plot to turn people away from following blogs anywhere else but Google+.
Kristi, I was shocked by the news too, as I use Reader every day. I’ve been using Feedly as my Google Reader interface for years, so I’m glad to hear they plan to provide a seamless transition. I’m also trying a product called The Old Reader, as this experience proves the wisdom of always keeping a backup option.
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At least we can backup Google Reader feeds, although they don’t export to OPML anymore. Some feed readers only take that format, so it’s quite inconvenient.
I would like suggest another alternatives to google reader. Unlike ordinary RSS-readers, LikeHack (http://likehack.com) adds links from your Facebook and Twitter feeds, and also provides two kinds of custom filters to eliminate whole topics by keywords and exclude instagram photos and other media from your feed. It makes also all links you shared searchable.
We have launched recently and glad to invite you to test!
I’ll check it out Andrew. Thanks for sharing! Nice name too!
Kristi, thanks for this great information. I too was quite stunned when I opened up my Google Reader this morning to find the message it wouldn’t be there after July 1. I’ve just made the switch to Feedly, and I’m already finding some advantages over GR. Thanks again!
I am too Monica. I still like the layout of Netvibes, but Feedly does have its perks.
Hey Kristi,
Here’s a crowdsourced list of alternatives to Google Reader. Feel free to vote/comment and suggest additions.
http://list.ly/list/33u-google-reader-rss-reader-alternatives-crowdsourced-list
Thanks for sharing Nick!
Awesome list, Nick. Thanks for the link!
I am gonna miss reader a lot. it was the best but now coming to alternatives I feel feedly is good and they have got nice GUI and thy even have google chrome extensions and it imports all the feeds from the reader.
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Feedly is looking quite promising so far.
I am terribly sadened by the closing of Google Reader. I am able to go thru an amazing amount of dissimilar information quickly using the service. I really can’t imagine not having an equivilant. I am also not surprised. Google is focusing on information and monetization. Reader gave them neither. I am hoping that my favorite readers, Android Press and iOS Reeder both allow for subscriptions to other RSS Subscription services.
I refuse to us the social sites for reading news. Not only is it slow but I feel like someone is tracking my every click and my likes to sell something to me.
They had AdSense ads in many of the RSS feeds – not sure why they couldn’t monetize that by forcing them into all of the feeds. But oh well.
But they only had AdSense if you were using Googles Reader Website. If you used an application (like Reeder or Press), then there were no ads. I am also not sure if the apps striped the click thru data either.
My other fear is that this will be a signal sites that RSS feeds are no longer useful. While a majority of Web Servers/App Servers make it easy to create, it is still a choice.
True. I hope it’s not the end of RSS. It’s my preferred method of subscription.
Great roundup as always, Kristi! I’ve been a fan of Netvibes for a while — much to the cold shoulder of many hipsters
I hope it can benefit from a new flux of users because of this change.
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I like the Netvibes interface. Feedly still wins because they have a search features and social integration though.
Wow… that is new for me! Google reader will disappear soon. What a surprise!
Well, I was not such a fan of using these feed reader myself, I’d rather use just an application installed on Google Chrome which is really handy for me. But I tried Netvibes this week, it seems to work fine, but I will continue to use my add-on on Google Chrome!
Nice article Kristi!! I am a big fan!!
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Thanks Felipe!
Kristi, this is great information. You obviously did your homework. Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks Tom! I unfortunately chose to do my homework while all of the sites were crashing from the news, but it all turned out well in the end.
Thanks for the alternatives! Google is getting rid of all sorts of useful stuff. I’m still bummed about them retiring the iGoogle home pages, but at least that isn’t for 6 months or so…
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I’m still bummed about how they killed PostRank, and that’s been at least a year or longer.
Hey Kristi, I’m hoping the solution is Feedly (no pressure guys…), it’s nice and clean and it’s already in my “daily toolbox”, I’m really not looking forward to integrating anything new.
As for Feedburner, which will die next as you well say in one of the comments below, it’s been almost a year since I removed the RSS subscription options to focus exclusively on Aweber so, I’m happy to report there IS life after Feedburner and I think it was a good the decision.
Happy Thursday!
Happy Thursday to you too! I guess the reason I love offering RSS is because I like using RSS. I’m integrating Aweber more into my theme, so maybe that will be the ultimate solution. Thanks for stopping in!
I had liked feedly before but was using IGoogle for a while. It was nice and clean. The transition to Feedly went perfectly. I didn’t even have to import the xml file. It just knew. Thanks for the update.
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Yes, Feedly was definitely the easiest to transition into of the three. And quickest, even while everyone was slamming the sites last night.
I’ve been browsing some of the alternative sites and would like to try some of them out, but I’m having trouble downloading the .zip file. I click the “download” button, I’m asked to log in, I log in, I see the “download starting” box, and then nothing. I’ve tried three times. I’ve searched my hard drive for the file name and even just for “.zip.” Nothing. No idea what I’m doing wrong
Do you have a large amount of subscriptions? There should have been an option to email you when the file was ready.
Nope, nothing like that is appearing. I have 141 subscriptions. I waited several hours between first and second try.
That’s odd. My only guess would be they’re having a huge overload of people jumping ship since their announcement and that you might want to wait a day or two to try again. Services like Feedly and Newsblur will import directly from Google Reader without the file if you’re considering those.
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Thanks. I’ll try again in a day or two. Fingers crossed it will work. Manually transferring 141 subscriptions would not be my favorite way to spend time. Not at all pleased with Google right now.
I’m also curious what you and others think of the mobile versions of feed readers. I tried the Feedly and Currents iphone apps and didn’t like either one. I kept having to manually refresh Feedly, Currents seems to want to add a bunch of stuff to your feed that you may not even want, and you still have to individually click “add” for all the feeds from Reader that you want to have show up in it.
I like Netvibes mobile version best so far. None seem to update as quickly as Google Reader does though.
I like that Netvibes has an auto add feature from Feedburner, but it does stink that it lacks any effective search filter. I was using Thunderbird with RSS feeds to, your email client can often serve as a feed importer/reader as well but it tends to be a little slower than a cloud service running in a browser.
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I would love Netvibes if they had a search feature – glad I didn’t just miss it. I also need my feeds in the cloud since I switch devices often.
Kristi,
I was so bummed to see the announcement yesterday, and Feedly is at top of my list so far too.
BUT!
I just want to tell you that your tip to rename your subscriptions with Twitter handles is BRILLIANT. Brilliant.
I’ve loved being able to use Buffer straight from Reader, but it makes me crazy that the Twitter handle doesn’t automatically populate (as I always like to include the mention). This will make things so much easier. Thank you!
When you imported your feeds into Feedly, the subscription imported as the Twitter handle, yes?
Thank you so much for this tip. And post. Good stuff.
Glad you liked that tip! The feeds do import with the Twitter handle. You can see the handles in the left sidebar, but when you’re looking at the feeds in the main view, they show up as the blog name. So you kind of have them, but not where you want them. You can see what I mean in this image: http://kikolani.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/2013-03-14_1145.png
Hi Kristi
Nice article. I have started using Rolio.com which offers RSS feeds as well as my Facebook and Twitter feeds. Really simple looking and easy to use. Even has a Google Reader import.
I’ll check it out. Thanks Rick!
This sucks!
I’m going to miss Google Reader
But I’ve been reading my Google Reader account through Feedly lately anyways, so hopefully it won’t be the worst thing.
Thanks for this post. You were the first person I heard this from.
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Feedly’s not too bad, and they are setting up their system to take over after July 1st which is good.
Kristi,
This is great! I found our blog when searching for recommendations of a new feeder to switch to. I too am/was a heavy Google Reader user. Based on your post, and am going to use Feedly—the visuals helped a lot; really like how the mobile app looks. Thanks! -Elana
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Glad they helped Elana! I hope you enjoy Feedly.
Kristi,
Just migrated on over to feedly. Seamless. Oh, love their interface.
Thanks!
Craig
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I’m getting used to their interface… it’s working out pretty good so far!
I just logged in to my netvibes account, probably the first time in 3-4 years. I’m amazed (and delighted) that they are still in business.
Too bad about Google Reader. I was an extensive user of Google Notebook as well, and when they shut that down, it put me off online bookmarking and note taking in a pretty big way. I’ve never been willing to put the energy into Evernote or Delicious since then.
It just occurred to me that I might be able to archive my browser bookmarks on Github. That would be a long term solution.
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Netvibes looks pretty good too! If it had a search, I would love it!
hello kristi
really sad news. google reader was my favorite RSS reader. no one can replace it but thaks for the alternatives though i do not like other readers
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About time to start liking at least one of them. Or wait to see what Digg comes out with.
Thanks Kristi to find better alternative..
I was worried to manage my existing Subscriptions, now I find a better alternative..
Thanks for sharing..
You’re welcome!
My day Starts with Google Reader On my mobile
I know Fancy news readers like Pulse or Flipboard are nice, but Google Reader is much faster for me because it is a straightforward app.
I am using feedly for my desktop , but it is not compatible with my mobile
Hope some one will come with a lite RSS web app like Google reader very soon…Or is there anything already ?
Thanks Kristi For the grate post.
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I can’t get into the fancy ones. I like my plain, boring lists.
I was very interested with the responses after Google took down it’s reader. I was unaware that people still used the service much, though shutting it down seems to suggest that. I suppose it is fortunate that there are alternatives out there, but I think alternatives to RSS feeds as a whole will be the longer terms solution.
Lots will be campaigning to take over for Google Reader. It will be interesting to see which ones come out on top!
Hey Kristi,
I just wanted to stop by and tell you that I liked this post so much, I put it into my employee’s tutorials of the day learning list, anyways just wanted to stop by and say hey, it’s been a while. Talk 2 u soon
Your friend,
- Whitney Segura
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Thanks Whitney! I hope you’re doing well – it has been awhile!
Such an annoying thing when I entered the reader and it showed it will be no more. I have like 50 blogs subbed over there.
But thanks for sharing the alternatives, feedly looks fine to me and I will give it a try. Thanks!
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You’re welcome Tamal!
I am amazed at how many people want to cry about it instead of looking for solutions and moving on, Kristi.
Well, I am half way there – I’ve done my research on alternatives (http://www.slideshare.net/MeetAna/google-reader-alternatives); now I just need to actually pick one and move my feeds.
Mentioned this post in my new weekly marketing skinny (CL link); thanks for showing what these readers look like!
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That’s funny, I freaked out for about 5 minutes and then thought, what are the alternatives.
BTW, awesome work on SlideShare!
I think this is also one of the reason why google is shutting down the Reader. There’s many alternative there and google could focus more on other stuff than maintaining the Reader.
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The alternatives weren’t getting that much love until Google Reader made the announcement. Now Feedly has 500k new users!
I use netvibes, but the interface is a bit busy. I really miss Google reader and I really hope they don’t kill off feedburner. RSS is becoming a bit dated (though I still use it) but most of my traffic with regards to Feedburner has come by way of the email feature to my websites and it’s a nice alternative for people who just want to subscribe your website and not your email list.
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All signs seem to be pointing towards Feedburner being next to go. I’m getting ready to start the migration from Feedburner to Feedblitz.
Thanks – this article was really helpful explaining things the use of Google in a uncomplicated way.
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Wait. What! I havn’t been on-board with the RSS reader idea for very long, and of course the one i have chosen to take to isn’t going to last long. Thanks for sharing the info i will start my quest to find a new one with your suggestions!
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You’re welcome Craig!
I find it incredible that so many people dislike standalone platforms so much but that’s where I’ve gone. I’ve been a big fan of a program called Feedreader for 6 years and I’m glad it’s still around for me to use. It’s also very easy to subscribe to feeds with it.
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For me, it’s because I’m always back and forth between my laptop and my iPhone. I would lose a lot of reading time if I didn’t have the option to see my same feeds on mobile.
I’ll go with Feedly, it looks like the best option for me right now. Thank you for the tip on how to export the Google Reader feeds and subscriptions, it’s going to be useful.
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You’re welcome Violeta!
Feedly looks like great! I allready created an account there and I like it because it works with my Android tablet and phone. Lets hope it will work and after Google Reader shut down.
Thanks for the article.
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They received 500K new users… they’ll definitely work towards making sure the transfer goes smoothly when GR closes.
I rarely use Google Reader and hence its closure won’t effect me much. BTW Feedly must be surely enjoying this
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Feedly will need to figure out how to monetize this somehow. It would be huge!
I’ve been using Feedly since the announcement: it was really easy to set up and took about a second to transfer my Google Reader data across.
Google are shooting themselves in the foot here. Why sign up for any their tools when they’re likely to take them down as soon as they get bored with them?
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I think their goal is to put more effort into the stuff they do plan on keeping like G+, Analytics, YouTube, etc. But I know what you mean. They’ve bought up and subsequently closed several things I like using, so every time they announce something new, I think “Yeah, right, let’s see if this sticks around after a year.”
Thanks for this list. I still don’t really understand why they’re pulling it, especially if they’re not replacing it with something. Personally I like all of my stuff connected to my Gmail, because it makes everything simple to manage. Now I have to go somewhere else for my readers.. lame!
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That’s why I started using Google Reader too. Everything under one login was super convenient.
At first I was completely bugged at Google (again) for the Reader dump. Since switching to Feedly, however, I know they did me a favor. It’s so much better!
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Google Reader was one of my favorite online tool for monitoring the web, I didn’t follow any of the source on social network but on Google Reader and Alerts to keep a strict eye on my following. However, with the announcement of Google Reader service, I become very sad.
In a recent week, I tried to make a move on Feedly, so far I am liking the service! I have also installed Feedly companion application on my iPhone & iPad devices.
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