Looking for life after Google Reader? Here's what you need to know! | iMore.com. Google Reader will soon be gone, and anyone who uses it daily — like everyone here at Mobile Nations — will have to make a decision on how to carry on their RSS love affair. Fortunately, it's no longer the disaster we all feared on first hearing the news, and we're actually left with an ample selection of replacements. Here's everything you need to know. Export your feeds from Google Reader, like, now! The absolute first thing you should do if you haven't already, is export all of your Reader information through Google Takeout. After shutdown, it will be gone, so unless you want to start again from scratch, do it.
Do it now. And if you're not sure how, we've got you covered with a full walkthrough. How to export and transfer your Google Reader feeds to another RSS service on iPhone and iPad If you're quick, and do it before July 1, several alternative solutions will allow you to import your RSS feeds directly from Google Reader into their apps. Alternative providers - Feedly. Google Reader Is Shutting Down; Here Are the Best Alternatives. The Feed Reader Reviews: Newsblur. Introduction Google Reader is essentially dead. Its passed on. This reader is no more. It has ceased to be. Kicked the bucket. Shuffled off its mortal coil. I’ll miss the syncing service, but I was never really thrilled with the interface so it’s a minor loss. Rather than throw out a bunch of alternatives that I’ve never used more than five minutes, I’ll give you my opinions from the ground up.
Newsblur Newsblur has been around for awhile but, like all RSS readers, received a huge influx of new users over the past two months. Before I get into the review and tutorial, let’s get this out front. Getting Started Newsblur offers direct import from a Google account. Newsblur can also import from an OPML file. But here’s where Newsblur already starts to impress. The Reading Experience Newsblur presents a similar yet more effective design than Google Reader or Fever. The main feed list may be toggled between two different modes, a simple List View and a Split View. General Aesthetics The Dashboard. ReplaceReader. RSS isn't dead: the best Google Reader alternatives. 75inShare Jump To Close When I heard Google was planning to kill Google Reader on July 1st as part of a “spring cleaning exercise,” I was appalled.
Google had decided to disband the team of paperboys that delivered me the news every morning. While RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is years past its heyday, it had become a wonderful and efficient way to read news untarnished by the social networking age. It was my firehose of headlines, straight from the source. And Google Reader is a lot more than an RSS client. “Hearing that Google Reader is shutting down is like hearing that your favorite old bookstore is closing,” writes The New Yorker’s Joshua Rothman.
This post was updated on June 28th, 2013 with new information and products. Sticky TOC engaged! Saying goodbye Saying goodbye A quick primer on moving to a new service Switching from Google Reader to another service isn't much of a pain, assuming you pick one of the newer options like Feedly or Digg. Feedly Feedly The best overall reader Newsblur. Five Best Google Reader Alternatives. How to export and transfer your Google Reader feeds to another RSS service on iPhone and iPad. Google Reader replacement? | The Verge Forums. Google Reader is Dead. Here’s What You Need to Replace it.
I woke up this morning, grabbed my iPhone to check the news in Reeder — which is powered by my Google Reader account — only to find at the very top that Google is shutting down Google Reader, for good, on July 1, 2013. They said it’s because too few people use it, which is rather ironic since most of us heard the news via articles synced in Google Reader. Of course, it’s been a rumor for some time that Google Reader might be the next Google service to hit the chopping block, but it’s not just a rumor this time. Rather, is the first thing the Google Reader team has posted on their blog since 2011.
That should, in itself, tell part of the story. And rather than beating around the bush about it being shut down, Google Reader will now warn you itself, rather starkly, that it’s going away. It’s really, really real this time. So what do you do? First Things First: Export Your Google Reader Subscriptions Export your Google Reader subscriptions Use Pinboard to Save Your Starred and Shared Articles. Alternatives to Google Reader - OJB comment call. Google Reader Is Shutting Down; Here Are the Best Alternatives. As Google Reader is Axed, its Dependents Step Up. So Google is axing Google Reader. While the product has a diminishing but fiercely loyal user base (which includes me and other TNW staffers), a number of related RSS services relied on the Reader API code to do their thing.
That means the shutdown could affect a wider selection of Internet users, and a number of services are working on get-arounds to scoop up those left disappointed. Feedly — a browser plug-in that turns feed into magazine-like layouts — has detailed its project to clone to Google Reader API, popular social aggregator Flipboard says its “got your RSS feeds covered”, open-source Newsblur is adding more servers to cope with Reader imports, while Reeder — another Google dependent – “won’t die with Google Reader”. Doubtless there are others scrambling to be heard — and survive — following the news from Google. Instapaper creator Marco Arment has an interesting take on the subject.
Update: Now you can even petition the White House – here. Headline image via brittgow / Flickr. Google Reader is dying, but we have five worthy alternatives | iPhone Atlas. Editors' note: This post has been updated with new and better alternatives to fit your news-reading style. Hear that? That's the sound of millions of news junkies on the Web scrambling to find an alternative to Google Reader. As you may have heard, Google Reader will be no more starting July 1. Unfortunately for many of us, the search giant has announced that it will shutter its much-maligned -- though still widely used -- RSS reader, which will no doubt leave many users in a tizzy, searching for other ways to subscribe to their favorite feeds.
Sure, Google Reader may not have been the most beautifully designed product to come out of Mountain View, Calif., but it sure was convenient. And now that it's going away, it's evident just how valuable it has been. With that in mind, we've put together a list of what we think are the best replacements for the soon-to-be-late Google Reader. With that said, if you're the visual type, there are also options that read more like a magazine. Poll Technica: Where should we go when Google Reader is put out to pasture? Google's latest "spring cleaning" may be the company's most heartbreaking since Google Wave. Google Reader, the RSS reader of the masses, will shut down on July 1. A surprising number of Ars staffers still use Google Reader, so the conversation in the Orbital HQ immediately turned to alternatives. "Oh, what about FeedDemon?
" Errr, the service depends on Google Reader. Twitter quickly became a suggestion box. But when in doubt, Ars can always do what others can't—turn to our collective reader braintrust.