Google has struggled to make itself relevant in the social media world, and might be willing to go to lengths to spur usership of Google+. With such a successful product, she ponders, what else might Google be thinking? She speculates, “there’s a better-or at least a more-beneficial-to-Google-place for that RSS-like information to flow. She points to a petition which garnered 50,000 signatures in less than a day (and has since reached its target of 100,000 signatures). She acknowledges social media’s dominance, but notes that RSS is still in heavy use. “RSS won’t be killed by social media.” – Casey Johnston, ArsTechnicaĪrsTechnica writer Casey Johnston takes a different view. He expects sites to entirely abandon RSS feeds over the next few years. Twitter and Facebook, in contrast, will re-sort their feeds using an algorithm to prioritize posts based on retweets, likes, shares, etc. All that remain are power users, and that doesn’t constitute a business.” It is true that Google Reader becomes cumbersome if you are tracking too many topics. He writes, “Twitter acquired mainstream adoption because following was as simple as typing in a username and clicking “follow.” Once Twitter took off, it was game over for RSS. He points out that RSS is not very user-friendly, which has limited mainstream adoption. He is perplexed by the public’s response, and pointed out the backlash against Google could be attributed to a small group of highly vocal of bloggers, themselves power-users dependent on the product. Parr quit using Google Reader years ago in favor of social media, setting up a Twitter account for news tracking. “Rip off the Band-Aid and abandon RSS.” – Ben Parr, CNETĬNET columnist Ben Parr is in the first corner. Yesterday Google announced it will shut down its free RSS aggregator, Google Reader, prompting outcry from the blogosphere.
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