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Applied for Facebook Instant Articles
I applied this morning for Facebook Instant Articles. There’s a plug-in for WordPress that will create FBIA feeds, so fingers crossed that it’s easy to get working. Continue reading
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Is it possible to leave Facebook?
(Posted originally to my Facebook feed.) I keep trying to reclaim online time from Facebook, and then someone tags me or posts to my timeline, and my inner moderator kicks in. And then there I am right back on Facebook again, with their web bugs and their GPS tracking. To me recently Facebook feels like… Continue reading
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Marco Arment: Free Works
Marco Arment has a great post on the meta-issue surrounding Google Reader’s shutdown, on the issues around “free” in the tech industry: “If you try to play by the traditional rules and regulations, you run the risk of getting steamrolled by someone who’s perfectly willing to ignore them. Usually, that’s the biggest potential failure of… Continue reading
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RSS Sync: Please, No Standards Bodies
Seen on Brent Simmons’ new RSS-Sync mailing list: On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Will wrote: “It seems like W3 Community groups are designed to structure the development of this sort of web standard… it seems like integrating with their process would help add credibility to the protocol this group settles on…” I… Continue reading
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Chuck Shotton: Google Reader’s Real Value
Chuck Shotton: Google Reader’s Real Value (via Dave Winer) “Google Reader was at best an average RSS reader. But it excelled at keeping all of my other 3rd party RSS reader apps in sync… When Google Reader shuts down, what is going to do that for me? The answer right now is ‘nothing.’” Yep –… Continue reading
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TheOldReader.com Pivots in Response to Google
From The Old Reader blog: “Paid accounts will have some additional features, but the basic free accounts will still be 100% usable. We are not in this game to make money, but we want to give something special back to the people who are going to be supporting us… “We reworked the plans according to… Continue reading
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More Google Reader, Um… Reading
Dave Winer: Google Reader’s demise, part 2 “I don’t doubt that people will be well-served by a newly revitalized market for RSS products, now that the dominant product, the 800-pound gorilla, is withdrawing.” Om Malik: Google Reader lived on borrowed time: creator Chris Wetherell reflects “[It] was Google Crawler that gave the system ability to… Continue reading
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Reader: A Missed Opportunity?
Google Reader has been a quite popular, if geek-centered service, with a social bent… With the announcement that the service will shut down on July 1st, and all the millions of dollars, hours spent, and investment in competing with Twitter and Facebook, I find myself wondering: If Google had invested more in Reader as a… Continue reading
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Marco Nails It on Reader’s Demise
Marco Arment: Google Reader shutting down July 1 “Now, we’ll be forced to fill the hole that Reader will leave behind, and there’s no immediately obvious alternative. We’re finally likely to see substantial innovation and competition in RSS desktop apps and sync platforms for the first time in almost a decade.” Yes! See also: NetNewsWire… Continue reading
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Reader’s imminent demise: At least there are no zombies!
Syncpocalypse is upon us. It’s time to get our ducks in a row. For your listening pleasure, here’s Jeff Beck’s Because We’ve Ended As Lovers (That’s me playing bass with Revival, but it was a rehearsal so don’t sweat the details, Um’K?) Google’s Tweet: We’re retiring Reader on July 1. We know many of you… Continue reading