… it does, it doesn’t use RSS. One of my favorite apps for the iPhone/iPad is Reeder. It’s a Google Reader-based RSS client that is fast and simple — perfect for mobile devices. But the problem with it is that you still need to set up your feeds through Google Reader to use it in the first place. Most people don’t do that. And despite...

The shutting down of Bloglines and the decline of traffic to Google Reader has led some to predict (again) that RSS readers are dead, killed in part by the real-time nature of social networks such as Twitter and Facebook. But the truth is somewhat more complicated. Source : GigaOM Explore : Bloglines, Technology, Web 2 ...

Loic Le Meur, CEO of Seesmic, and I were arguing last week about whether RSS has a future or not. He speaks up for “it has a future” on his blog. Dave Winer today has a great post on how to reboot RSS. First, lets separate RSS readers from the format. You know, Google Reader [...] Source : Scobleizer Explore : Blogosphere, Blogs, Loic Le Meur,...

… it was CNET, and these days its TechCrunch. I keep saying the same thing over and over, the Google Reader approach is wrong, it isn’t giving you what’s new — and that’s all that matters in news. Succinctly put — news is about what’s new — and that’s it. Anyway, RSS is doing fine. It forms the ...

This weekend saw dueling announcements that painted a sharp contrast about the future of RSS. First, the big news from a slow weekend. was that Ask.com is shuttering it’s Bloglines Reader . Once one of the most popular RSS readers, Bloglines has maintained a strong following but has largely taken a backseat to Google Reader as a Web-based RSS rea...

Everyone is stressing the wrong part of the dynamic about Bloglines being shut down. It’s not that RSS is dead, or that RSS readers are dead, it’s the defection of RSS Reader readers — we, the edglings — from those tools to other ones: The Death Of The RSS Reader […] people no longer seem to be abandoning certain readers for others—or f...

Scoble and myself had another argument a few days ago about reading RSS feeds. Source : Voices Explore : Google, Google Reader, Search Engines, Technology, Twitter ...

IAC notoriously let Bloglines deteriorate since buying it five years ago; the company outsourced the RSS reader’s engineering team to China several years ago and by the time it made the announcement today that it would shut down the service, Bloglines no longer had a dedicated staff at all. Source : Voices Explore : Bloglines, Technology, Techno...

Ask.com is an unlikely service to become a harbinger of change in content. Some folks don’t agree with this statement. For example, read “The Death Of The RSS Reader.” The main idea is that: There have been predictions since at least 2006, when Pluck shut its RSS reader down that “consumer RSS readers” were a dead [...] Source : Beyond Se...

I’m switching from Bloglines (shuttering 10/1) to Google Reader. First question: Why would I want my RSS reader to so social? Join the conversation about this story » Source : The Business Insider Explore : Bloglines, Google, Google Reader, Search Engines, Technology ...