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One of the most popular Google product, the Google Reader will meet it's inevitable end this coming July 1, 2013 as Google announced that the RSS service will be no longer available after the above mentioned date.
Google Reader is a web-based program that let people subscribe to news feeds from their favorite sites. It has a huge following not only for bloggers but also, for some of the world's most prominent news media organization.
The product was notable not only for its rich features but most of all for the active community. The Google Reader's features were revolutionary in terms of function aside from being loved by it's millions of users.
Let's just take a look back at the history of Google Reader as it grew out from Blogger. Way back in 2004, Jason Shellen come to Google with Blogger acquisition. He was working on Google's Atom specification. Shellen asked Blogger engineer Chris Wetherell, if it would be possible to build an in-browser XML-parser to make sense of all the feeds.
The little tool created became Google Reader. Although the product was successful enough, Shellen couldn't get the go-signal from Google to launch it under it's social program, so he took it to Marissa Mayer, she was running Google's consumer web services for approval. Marissa was instrumental in approving the Google Reader provided that the team would strip out its social features.
The product debuted as a formal Google Labs in 2005 with a number of novel features such as the ability to detect what you had read on a per-item basis. In 2007, it outgrew Labs and became its own product.
The Google Reader became a discovery tool for giving users the ability to friend, follow and share stories with others. Aside from sharing, you can also use the commenting features. It became a place not only to share but to discuss with friends.
In 2011, Google removed the ability to share and replaced it with a Google + sharing option. The move became the end of Google Reader community, most members lamented the loss of their favorite feature product.
Right now, Google finally announced that it will be killing it's product this coming July 1, 2013. According to the announcement made through their official blog which stated that Google Reader was part of their "Second Spring of Cleaning."
For more information regarding the retirement of Google Reader, just head on to their official Google Blog.
But what about you? Were you a Google Reader user? Are you still? Will you miss it? Just add your comments in the space provided below.
Google Reader is a web-based program that let people subscribe to news feeds from their favorite sites. It has a huge following not only for bloggers but also, for some of the world's most prominent news media organization.
The product was notable not only for its rich features but most of all for the active community. The Google Reader's features were revolutionary in terms of function aside from being loved by it's millions of users.
Let's just take a look back at the history of Google Reader as it grew out from Blogger. Way back in 2004, Jason Shellen come to Google with Blogger acquisition. He was working on Google's Atom specification. Shellen asked Blogger engineer Chris Wetherell, if it would be possible to build an in-browser XML-parser to make sense of all the feeds.
The little tool created became Google Reader. Although the product was successful enough, Shellen couldn't get the go-signal from Google to launch it under it's social program, so he took it to Marissa Mayer, she was running Google's consumer web services for approval. Marissa was instrumental in approving the Google Reader provided that the team would strip out its social features.
The product debuted as a formal Google Labs in 2005 with a number of novel features such as the ability to detect what you had read on a per-item basis. In 2007, it outgrew Labs and became its own product.
The Google Reader became a discovery tool for giving users the ability to friend, follow and share stories with others. Aside from sharing, you can also use the commenting features. It became a place not only to share but to discuss with friends.
In 2011, Google removed the ability to share and replaced it with a Google + sharing option. The move became the end of Google Reader community, most members lamented the loss of their favorite feature product.
Right now, Google finally announced that it will be killing it's product this coming July 1, 2013. According to the announcement made through their official blog which stated that Google Reader was part of their "Second Spring of Cleaning."
For more information regarding the retirement of Google Reader, just head on to their official Google Blog.
But what about you? Were you a Google Reader user? Are you still? Will you miss it? Just add your comments in the space provided below.