Comments on: The Death Of The RSS Reader

By: valeriy

valeriy — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 02:41:20 +0000

Well thats a surprise. Sounds to me more like the guys at IAC thought social media and RSS were just another market share opportunity and a trade secret. There is something to be said about keeping an online service active and alive, not stagnant. Correct me if I’m wrong but it doesn’t look like Google will be shutting any service down anytime soon, especially the Reader. Just because IAC made a few bad decisions doesn’t mean people are disconnecting their RSS feeds. I like to think that we are just becoming more selective about the feeds we subscribe to. In fact I find my Apple Mail feeder to be working just fine, it serves the purpose, I subscribe to what I want to read and get it in my box, plain and simple.

By: voidfiles

voidfiles — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 05:42:36 +0000

This quote which is in bold, isn’t attributed anywhere. How can we find out where they got the stat.

“Hitwise, for instance, tells us that visits to Google Reader are down 27 percent year-over-year, while visits to Bloglines are down 71 percent year-over-year.”

By: Alberto de Francisco

Alberto de Francisco — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:32:56 +0000

http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2010/09/welcome-and-look-back.html

Google dixit

By: Chris Williams

Chris Williams — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:23:35 +0000

Twitter may replace RSS as a distribution technology, but that doesn’t mean that there is no further need for content aggregators! It just means that reader applications need to evolve and not limit themselves to RSS; next-generation tools like Activorous (http://activoro.us) support RSS alongside social media and other web content — whether RSS as a technology continues to be used is irrelevant to what users want and need; that’s just the plumbing.

By: Noelle

Noelle — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:37:25 +0000

I still love Google reader and use it every day. I don’t plan to stop anytime soon!

By: George Zimmer

George Zimmer — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:12:43 +0000

Read this via Google Reader.

By: mh

mh — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:14:00 +0000

twitter and facebook are not replacing RSS readers. my theory is that people are just getting self absorbed and absorbed in facebook and twitter, and are ignoring the news more, which are depressing and hopeless. it doesn’t prove that those tools are replacing RSS, but rather, taking over all the time spent by people tending to their farms and mafias and re-tweeting what kanye said, people used to spend educating themselves on events.

By: Michael Williams

Michael Williams — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:52:43 +0000

My guess is that some of that traffic has moved to smart phones or iPads. Twitter is simply not very useful unless you already have some degree of fame. Scoble should create a John Smith account and see if any one responds to his tweets. If you are trying to find tech news or info on a specific topic, RSS readers are invaluable. Twitter and Facebook are pretty much useless.

By: Anuj Ahooja

Anuj Ahooja — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:12:05 +0000

I found this article through my Google Reader. I would have never found it through Twitter or Facebook because of the clutter. So no, the RSS Feed is far from dead; in fact Twitter and Facebook are pushing the RSS even further by giving us an outlet to discuss those feeds we follow.

By: Zanatlija5

Zanatlija5 — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:51:22 +0000

I would never give up my Google Reader . This statistics is not true.