A second spring of cleaning – the announcement on Google’s official blog.I will also be exploring alternative reader services for personal use – and sharing what I learn here. If you are one of them, we will do our best to contact you and provide alternative subscription choices over the coming months. Many people follow this blog through Google Reader. That is why FeedDemon too announced it was ending the project as it. Most of the feed managers are actually using Google Reader to sync. But finding an alternative for Google Reader is not as easy. Actually, Google Reader users still have over 3 months to find themselves alternatives. When I uploaded the subscription list I got from Google Takeout to The Old Reader, it told me 29,000 people ahead of me…. Yesterday, Google decided to pull the plug on Google Reader. Some of the alternative services were experiencing overloads last week as anxious users began to flock away from Google Reader. The oddly named “Data Liberation Front” provides a utility called Google Takeout that will export your Reader data (subscriptions, subscribers, likes, favorites, etc.).
Click the link under “Migrate” to learn how to convert your Google Reader data. A checked mobile platform indicates that an app is available (web-only titles should also work in a mobile device browser). The chart below lists six of the commonly mentioned alternatives. Many services are offering themselves as replacements and providing directions for changing over. Translation: “we’re not making any money on it and RSS is not as sexy as Goggles.” The stated reasons are that usage has declined and the company wants to put its energy into fewer products. The 800-pound gorillaGoogle announced last Wednesday that Google Reader, their service for following blogs and other kinds of RSS feeds, will disappear on July 1, 2013.