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Mobile computing and social media innovation can mean less user control |
March 16, 2013
The Internet freaked out this week after Google announced the closure of its cloud-based RSS reader, Google Reader.
RSS fans begged Google to change its mind, signed a petition and scrambled to come up with alternatives. Although Google Reader is just one reader among many (probably the best one), many expressed fear that the RSS format itself is threatened by Google's action.
Despite the thousands of articles and blog posts lamenting the loss, few wondered why so many people think RSS is worth saving.
The conventional wisdom, which is conventional but not wisdom, says that RSS is obsolete because now we have Twitter and other social things. Techcrunch even said " In essence, Twitter is a big RSS reader."
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Link: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9237636/More_innovation_means_less_control._Is_that_bad_#tk.rss_all
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