When I signed into my Google Reader account today, I got a popup announcement that Google Reader was retiring as of July 1, 2013. I’ve already lost Adsense for RSS from Google and will also be losing iGoogle. This is all setting me into a panic to think WHAT IS NEXT for Google to get rid of?
Hopefully, they are getting rid of it because they are creating something new and awesome in place of these items. I don’t know if this is the case but I really hope that they have things in the works that we don’t know about. Google Current is the closest thing at the moment and it’s only available on iOs and Android – not on your actual computers – some of us still use ACTUAL computers Google! 🙂
Google Reader will be retired on July 1, 2013. If you’d like to download a copy of all your Reader data before then, you can do so through Google Takeout. You’ll receive your subscription data in an XML file, and the following information will be downloaded as JSON files:
- List of people that you follow
- List of people that follow you
- Items you have starred
- Items you have liked
- Items you have shared
- Items shared by people you follow
- Notes you have created
- Items with comments
Click here to start downloading your Reader data from Takeout. Once downloaded, your subscription data should be easily transferrable to another product, where you can continue to keep up with your online reading.
Apparently, more and more people are using social media like Twitter and Facebook to get their news. However, there are many of us, that still love our feeds. I’m one of them. Twitter gets overloaded with noise from everything. In my feed reader, I can focus JUST on blog posts.
What Google Feed Reader alternatives are out there? The ones I’m going to check out are Feedly, RocketFeed, and NewsBlur. Let me know which feed readers you like!
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