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RIP Google Reader, You've Got Good Company [Infographic]
Google Reader is joining the choir invisible July 1, but as we all know, it has plenty of company in the graveyard of deceased Google products. Google's Product Graveyard Over the last 10 years, many Google hits total duds have been killed off or rolled into other products.
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Buzzego Joins the List of Google Reader Alternatives
Since Google Reader’s days are numbered, another reading platform has added its name to the list of possible replacements: Buzzego. Introducing Buzzego Launched just a few months ago, Buzzego describes itself as a “content discovery website” and in a way is a web-based version of Flipboard.
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Feedly Weens Off Google Reader
Feedly, a popular RSS reader, has debuted its Web based version called Feedly Cloud just in time to migrate a few more people from Google Reader before Google shutters it permanently July 1. In the Browser, and Inside the Browser Once Google announced it was killing off the eternally useful Google Reader, the Internet wept, and
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Feedly Poised to Replace Google Reader with New RSS App Integrations
For those worried about what to do with their RSS Feed following the pending retirement of Google Reader, they shouldn't be concerned; Feedly has been redesigned and restructured to take its place. Feedly to the Rescue In March, Google Reader was announced as one of many tools that Google was going remove from service as of July 1.
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LinkedIn Buys Pulse News Reader for US$ 90 Million
Pulse, a popular and free news reader in the Flipboard or Zite style, has been scooped up by LinkedIn, the newest shooting star in social media, for US $90 million. LinkedIn Moving Past Professional Connections Buying Pulse is a LinkedIn rumor we had been following for the last month
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Top 5 Alternatives to Google Reader
Google's seemingly indispensable RSS feed bundler will die on July 1. Google Reader fans will have to come up with an alternative unless the backlash convinces the company to change course.
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It's Spring Cleaning Time and Google Reader is Hitting the Wastebasket
Google’s “Spring Cleaning” mission continues as the company announces eight products and features that will no longer be in service or updated over the next few months. Out with the Old The "spring cleaning" started in 2011 and will be an ongoing process.
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Google Killing PostRank.com and PostRank Analytics on 1 May
The last post has blown for PostRank, with the company confirming the "sunsetting" of its popular social media analytics service, which Google brought last June, with users being advised to switch to Google Analytics instead.
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A Week in Google: A New Gmail Look and a Bad iPhone App
Lots of negativity in the world of Google this week. In addition to the big disappointment that was the Gmail app for the iPhone, there's plenty of trash being talked about the new look of Gmail and Google Reader. Google Responds Over Rapid Removal of iPhone Gmail App After weeks
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Google Reader Users Unimpressed by 'Improvements'
Google recently rolled out revamped GMail and Google Reader, and plenty of users are less than thrilled about the changes. In fact, some Reader users are migrating to Twitter as an RSS feed reader, instead. I'll admit the new look is minimalist, white, stark... and a little cold.
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Google Upgrades Gmail App For iPad
Maybe not a major release, but the announcement by Google that it has upgraded the interface for its Gmail app on iPad will be welcome to those annoyed at the original interface that split the screen in two vertically and made navigation somewhat difficult. According to the Google mobile blog
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Google Dresses Up RSS Feeds in Google Reader Play
In what looks like an attempt to make RSS more fun, Google has released a little tool called Google Reader Play. The Google Reader alternative allows users to browse headlines one at a time in an image-heavy environment, rather than wade through streams of text.
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