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The Death of Google Reader

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The big news yesterday in the tech world was Google’s announcement to close the Reader service. The service will shut down on July 1. I keep wondering if the decision to close Reader is an effort to move more people over to Google+ to act as a newsfeeder?

I’m following Gizmodo’s “Google Reader” tag thread in hopes of finding a suitable replacement. Does anyone have a recommendation for a newsreader service or an opinion on why Google would abandon Reader?

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UPDATE:

I decided to try a couple of the RSS news reader alternatives and here’s what I’ve discovered.

Newsblur
Newsblur has so many people signing up for accounts this week that they’ve shut down their free accounts and if you want to try the service, you must upgrade to their premium account.
The Old Reader
It looks like I’ll be waiting a couple days before The Old Reader will get my account online.
Feedly
So far, the winner, just from the standpoint of accessibility, is Feedly. It accessed my Google Reader feed and I was up and running within a few minutes. Feedly is promising to have a backend installed to take over all the feeds by July 1.

 

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