Google (s GOOG) today launched Keep, an app that allows you to save things, clip stuff from the web, hoard notes and what not and put them all onto your Google Drive. Yup, you guessed it -- it is an imitation to Evernote and many other such applications. It is a good thing that Google has decided to compete with the likes of Evernote -- it validates their market.
As I logged into Twitter Thursday morning, @ahoova’s tweet greeted me:
Why? Why would google reader shut down? WHY—
Ahuvah Berger Burcat (@ahoova) March 14, 2013
And what followed were several hours on a roller-coaster ride of emotional ups and downs and reading more about RSS feeds and apps than I’ve done in years. I consume a lot of RSS feeds in my Google Reader, but apparently overlooked this one:
Powering Down Google Reader (via Official Google Reader Blog and posted to WordPress.com via Reader’s “Send to” button.)
What does this mean for me personally? For me the Reader is not only about reading but being able to share interesting reads and not just to FB, Twitter and by email! Google Reader also lets you publish a public page of any selected feed or groups of feeds and that page itself has a feed. I’ve used them to populate WordPress.com RSS widgets on several of my sites. On this site, that’s the “Blogging News” in the footer. Come July 1st, those will disappear, unless I can find a replacement.
And on the lighter side, Ian in Hamburg has gone all out poking fun at the demise of Google Reader (with tongue in cheek…I think).
Meanwhile, over on Rob Cottingham’s “Noise to Signal”…
Update: Will the bad news from Google never end? What’s next, Google Alerts?
Update2: WordPress.com users can import their Google Reader subscriptions to the WordPress.com Reader. Announcement here.
Could be related:
Killing Google Reader is like killing the bees: we’ll all be worse off
Apparently my Mini was off partying without my knowing about it. In fact, I was sitting right next to it when this photo was taken by the event organizer, but it seems Mini’s WP stickers were more of an attraction than the woman who owns them. Regardless, thank you, Google Campus coordinator, for providing the full picture.
(I am so not going to get a thing done this weekend.)
via Lior Haner via Miriam Schwab on Facebook
(IP address specific captchas?)
And in other news, Even Microsoft says stop using IE6
It's not often that we encourage you to stop using one of our products, but for #IE6, we'll make an exception: http://bit.ly/g0wt4m—
(@Microsoft) March 04, 2011
According to W3 Schools, XP users make up 42.9% of the browsing public, but won’t be able to upgrade to the latest version of Internet Explorer, IE9. You’ll need Vista or Windows7 to do that. Thankfully, other browsers continue to fill the browser wars gap. (Chrome 10 if you were wondering…)
Windows7 and Vista users will soon discover that IE9 will be a part of their future, like it or not.
On a humorous note (I hope), “Save IE6!”
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And at the moment, feedly does not seem to have a simple feed export feature. Still looking!
Thanks! It's a lovely holiday, lots of history to it, but I'd love to get out of the kitchen for a d
Have a happy Pesach, Jennifer.
Thanks, SJ, and of course the same to you and yours. When/why do you think the "ve'Kasher" was added
!חג כשר ושמח
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