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Thursday, March 21, 2013
Google Reader to shut down July 1st
Hello everyone, This will be the first post on Tech Mind’s blog and I wanted to dedicate this post to “Google Reader”. I think you already know Google Reader, one of the world’s most popular RSS reader, is about to shut down on July 1, 2013. Google announced this news on Wednesday. (13th March 2013)I also found out, In addition to killing Google Reader, Google about to ending support for the Google voice app for BlackBerry Smartphones. Number of users will be affected by the end of Google voice app for BlackBerry and the various API services. However the biggest blow for many will be the disappearance of 7 years old Google Reader.Google says it is killing it off because “usage of Google Reader has declined, and as a company we’re pouring all of our energy into fewer products." As one of the most popular RSS aggregation around, the death of Google Reader could spell doom for the RSS protocol itself, which has seen waning popularity since the rise of social sharing services. Additionally, there is a rather healthy ecosystem of third party apps for mobile devices that use Google Reader to synchronize news articles. These apps will have to find another method of importing articles from the web or just fade off into the sunset when Reader meets its ultimate demise. Either way, we'll be pouring some out for Google Reader come July 1st, and be looking for new way to keep up with our favorite sites on the web in the meantime. ( Details from Internet Sources)
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