Digg Reader Is A Promising, But Still Incomplete, Google Reader Alternative (Hands On) For a subset of the Internet’s population, Google’s March announcement of its intention to shutter its dated, rusting RSS feed-reading service Google Reader was met with a large outcry. Though never having grown to a size that made the service worth sustaining in Google’s eyes, its niche user base was devoted and heavily engaged. They were the Internet’s most active readers, the power users capable of handling more advanced tools for digging up all the interesting things you can find on the web. And now, they were homeless. Immediately following Google’s announcement, the team at Digg.com grieved, too, saying: “Like many of you, we were dismayed to learn that Google will be shutting down its much-loved, if under-appreciated, Google Reader on July 1st.
But even better, they decided to do something about it. Why Digg Digs RSS In the months since, the new Digg.com has begun to see some success. “There’s a problem with reading on the Internet,” he says. Digg Reader, however, does. What’s Missing. “Facebook Reader” Is Real, But It’s Not RSS Or A Google Reader Wannabe. Facebook is working on a fresh way to read news, a source tells TechCrunch. It’s not based on RSS, and Facebook isn’t rushing the launch of a product that could compete with Flipboard.
That’s because news reading is a high-stakes, long-term project that could get us to invest even more time in the social network. Since our source brought us that info last week, the WSJ ran a story saying that Facebook is working on a product, code-named Reader, but had few details about how the product worked. It compared Reader to Flipboard because it supposedly aggregates news and presents it in a tablet- and smartphone-friendly format. The report matches up with a post we published a little over a week ago, when we predicted that Facebook would soon be launching a reader product.
Facebook refused to comment on any of this, but we have been digging around and here’s what we’ve found so far. This Is Not A Google Reader Competitor This Has Been In The Works For A While We Devote Time To News. Just in time for Google Reader’s demise, beloved RSS reader NetNewsWire launches open beta. In just a week, Google will shut the door on Reader forever. But now a local reader alternative is coming back with a vengeance and, eventually, with syncing between Mac, iPhone and iPad. It’s called NetNewsWire 4 and you may have heard of it.
That’s because it basically created the standard for news readers on the desktop computer when it was introduced in 2002 by its creator Brent Simmons. Simmons was then hired on by NewsGator when it bought NetNewsWire in 2005, left to found Sepia Labs, the makers of Glassboard. More recently, Simmons went indie again with the release of the Vesper notes app directed by John Gruber and designed by Dave Wiskus. The app was acquired by Black Pixel in 2011, and the firm set about rebuilding it as a client for the Mac and iOS. In the wake of the announcement that Google Reader is done for, the lack of a modern, updated NetNewsWire for Apple’s various devices has become even more of a thorn. You can download the beta of NetNewsWire for Mac now. Popular RSS App Reeder Announces Upcoming Support For Google Reader Alternative Feedbin. Reader is one of the most popular RSS clients out there for Apple devices. It’s available on OS X and iOS, and up until now it has mainly been used in conjunction with Google Reader.
Now that Google has announced its plans to kill Google Reader in the coming months, many are starting to look to alternative RSS aggregators. Today the maker of the app Reeder, Silvio Rizzi, announced that Feedbin support will be added soon to the iPhone version. Feedbin is a simple, clean-looking Google Reader replacement with an API that third-party clients can utilize. The Mac and iPad versions of Reeder will get Feedbin support when version 2.0 of Rizzi’s app launches later down the road.
Reeder also currently supports Fever, a service that acts like Google Reader but also curates feeds to find the hottest articles. Feedbin is like Google Reader, but it costs $2 per month. Source @reederappRelated. Blog, What’s Next. A few days ago we announced that we were re-prioritizing our product roadmap for 2013 in order to build an RSS reader from scratch. While we had long planned to build something like this, we had no idea we’d be attempting to do it so soon, or within such a tight timeframe.
But after Google’s announcement last week, and Reader’s imminent shutdown, we think it’s the right thing to do. It’s certainly the self-interested thing to do, given how much we all relied on Google Reader. Over 800 comments were left on last week’s blog post. The comments are rife with practical, creative, and smart insights that we will do our level best not to squander. After combing through all 800 comments, here are 4 points that seemed to recur, and loudly: Keep it simple, stupid*Make it fast (like, really fast)Synchronize across devicesMake it easy to import from existing Google Reader accounts Digg P.S.
Mr. Reader Blog, Google Reader shutdown: My thoughts and future options. 6 days after Google’s announcement to shutdown Google Reader on July 1, 2013, the support mail wave has subsided back to normal levels. It’s a good time to write down my thoughts and to get a better overview of the current situation and my future options. Google Reader does nothing? In the past few days I’ve received some mails from people thinking that Google Reader is just a simple storage of an OPML file (your subscriptions). It is not: Yes, it stores all of your folders and feedsIt fetches articles from all of your subscriptions and stores them in a big, big database (for millions of users)It keeps those downloaded articles “forever”. This is also necessary to provide a Google worthily searchIt records and maintains the unread/read and starred status of every single article in your Reader account.
Does anybody have more details about the Google Reader infrastructure? What makes Google Reader so popular? For many people RSS is a synonym for Google Reader. ;-) What are my possibilities? Thought Palace - How To Build An RSS Sync System: A Brain-Dump. How App.net could be helpful to next generation RSS readers. Google Reader is dead, so we rebuilt it for you in Zite (in six hours) | Zite. We at Zite were sad to hear about Google Reader’s impending demise. Google Reader and Zite have always been complementary products: GR providing news from sources you’ve subscribed to manually and Zite giving you news algorithmically-targeted from the whole web. Since Google Reader is dying, we created a replacement in Zite that doesn’t depend on Google’s infrastructure.
From start to finish, in six hours. How it works First, link your Google Reader account by visiting Explore (or during initial set up) You’ll find a section called ‘Google Reader Feeds’ in your Quicklist. (If it doesn’t appear, kill the app and restart) Zite was able to pull this together so quickly because of how our backend works. Note that this is a basic feed reading only. We know there’s a lot more to do to improve this functionality within Zite, but we’re excited that we’ve been able to build something so quickly for disgruntled Google Reader users and look forward to adding more features.
Like this: Like Loading... Baby steps toward replacing Google Reader. With Google Reader’s impending shutdown, lots of new feed-sync services and self-hostable projects will be popping up. Nearly every mobile and desktop RSS client syncs with Google Reader today, often as the only option. Getting widespread client support for any other service will be difficult since it’s probably going to be a while before there’s a clear “winner” to switch to. The last thing we need is a format war — with Reader’s shutdown in July, we don’t have time for one. An obvious idea that many have proposed (or already implemented) is to make a new service mirror the (never-officially-documented) Google Reader API.
Even if it also offers its own standalone API for more functionality, any candidates to replace Google Reader should mirror the fundamentals of its API. Clients then only need to change two simple things: Then use that as the hostname for all API requests: Like it or not, the Google Reader API is the feed-sync “standard” today. Blog, We're Building A Reader. Like many of you, we were dismayed to learn that Google will be shutting down its much-loved, if under-appreciated, Google Reader on July 1st. Through its many incarnations, Google Reader has remained a solid and reliable tool for those who want to ensure they are getting the best from their favorite sections of the Internet. And though they were not wholly appreciated at the time, Reader’s early social features were forward-thinking and hugely useful.
We’ve heard people say that RSS is a thing of the past, and perhaps in its current incarnation it is, but as daily (hourly) users of Google Reader, we’re convinced that it’s a product worth saving. So we’re going to give it our best shot. We’ve been planning to build a reader in the second half of 2013, one that, like Digg, makes the Internet a more approachable and digestible place. After Google’s announcement, we’re moving the project to the top of our priority list. Andrew. Feedly promises 'seamless' transition after Google Reader to its own backend. Feedly could save Google Reader clients with cloned API. Transitioning from Google Reader to feedly. Google announced today that they will be shutting down Google Reader. This is something we have been expecting for some time: We have been working on a project called Normandy which is a feedly clone of the Google Reader API – running on Google App Engine. When Google Reader shuts down, feedly will seamlessly transition to the Normandy back end.
So if you are a Google Reader user and using feedly, you are covered: the transition will be seamless. If you are a Google Reader, give feedly a try before July 1st, and you will be able to migrate seamlesly:Feedly for iOSFeedly for AndroidFeedly for FirefoxFeedly for ChromeFeedly for Safari Note 1: if you are migrating from Google Reader to feedly, here are some tips on how to personalize feedly to better match your existing workflows.
If you have any feature request please add it on our feature request page. Update 22:24 PST: Bandwidth upgraded. Like this: Like Loading... Feed Wrangler. Feed Wrangler is a modern, sustainable RSS reader. Fast — Feed Wrangler is designed to make checking your RSS feeds as frictionless a process as possible. Clean — Feed Wrangler puts your content front and center. The interface is simple and understated to let you focus on what you actually care about. Powerful — While Feed Wrangler is intuitive enough for anyone to use, it doesn't disappoint the Power User. Features like Smart Stream, Filters and Full Text Search let you truly wrangle the news. Economical — Feed Wrangler is packed with features but won't break the bank. Apps Feed Wrangler is funded by your ongoing subscription so the Feed Wrangler apps will always be provided as a free add-on.
Feed Wrangler for iOS Free for all Feed Wrangler members. Pod Wrangler for iOS Free for all Feed Wrangler members. 3rd Party Apps Feed Wrangler is additionally supported by a wide range of 3rd Party clients. Reviews of Feed Wrangler Smart Streams & Filters Advanced Read Later Full 3rd Party API. Devongovett/reader. Replacing Reader (Patter)