It’s a sad day for those who still get their news through RSS feeds. Google has announced that the popular Google Reader application will be officially shut down as of July 1.
Well, perhaps not ‘popular.’ Use of Google Reader has had a steady decline, and as Google software engineer Alan Green explained in a post on the Google Reader blog, Google is eliminating products in order to improve user experience on the ones they will be focusing on.
For those not familiar with the product, Google Reader is an aggregator of RSS (rich site summary) feeds that allows people to get regular updates from web content they subscribe to. There’s widespread integration into many desktop email clients now, like Mail for Mac and Outlook for PC, but Google Reader has garnered quite a few fans who want their RSS feeds available online.
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