{"id":7762,"date":"2013-03-14T08:35:05","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T15:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=7762"},"modified":"2020-08-26T10:07:33","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T17:07:33","slug":"goodbye-google-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/goodbye-google-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Google Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"
Google has finally announced that they were closing Reader<\/a>.<\/p>\n I suspect that many folks have never heard of this product. Or maybe have, but don\u2019t know what it\u2019s for and have never tried it. It\u2019s unbelievably handy. I use it every day.<\/p>\n I suspect that various forms of social media seem \u201cgood enough\u201d to solve that problem for most people. At least, for anyone who hasn\u2019t gotten comfortable with a news reader.<\/p>\n On Facebook, for example, you would follow every person or company that interested you, then assume that you\u2019ll get their latest news in your feed. Of course, many companies won\u2019t be on there, or won\u2019t publish the same information there, and anyway the page is filled with creepy ads. So it\u2019s certainly not the same thing.<\/p>\n
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\nThe concept of an \u201cRSS Reader\u201d is simple. You have a website that you like to read on a regular basis, but it seems cumbersome to visit dozens of websites just to find the few new articles. That\u2019s where an RSS reader comes in. That\u2019s a tool that lets you browse all that new content in one place.<\/p>\n