As someone who never relied on Google for RSS, this article comes across as somewhat nonsensical.
Most Google Reader users were not using RSS before and likely would never have used them if not for Reader. They didn't kill RSS - they introduced people to it.
As someone who used a self hosted reader as well as a standalone desktop reader, the coming and going of Reader went completely unnoticed.
Ditto with browser support. Even Firefox dropped it - and they're the browser that introduced the feature! Seems silly to blame Google for the general trend.
Couldn't care less for Feedburner's attempt to monetize it. RSS is a protocol like email. Would I think positively about a service trying to monetize email?
The rest of the article is about various Google services dropping support for it.
If Google kills Gmail would we say Google killed email? It's a nonsensical thought process.
Anecdotally I found it was Twitter that killed RSS. When it was new people were using it for the same purpose I was using RSS. To follow people and organizations.
Most Google Reader users were not using RSS before and likely would never have used them if not for Reader. They didn't kill RSS - they introduced people to it.
As someone who used a self hosted reader as well as a standalone desktop reader, the coming and going of Reader went completely unnoticed.
Ditto with browser support. Even Firefox dropped it - and they're the browser that introduced the feature! Seems silly to blame Google for the general trend.
Couldn't care less for Feedburner's attempt to monetize it. RSS is a protocol like email. Would I think positively about a service trying to monetize email?
The rest of the article is about various Google services dropping support for it.
If Google kills Gmail would we say Google killed email? It's a nonsensical thought process.
Anecdotally I found it was Twitter that killed RSS. When it was new people were using it for the same purpose I was using RSS. To follow people and organizations.