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As you all know by now (because I’m always the last one to find out these things), Google Reader is going away. Now, I rarely use Reader directly, but all of the RSS clients I’ve used in the last couple of years have used Reader as their backends.
So now I ask you, dear Interwebs: What are you going to do after July 1st? How are you going to get your RSS fix? More importantly, how are you going to get your RSS fix across all of your devices without re-reading / re-marking articles?
My wishlist is pretty simple, I think: web interface, iDevice (iPhone, iPad) interface, ability to keep everything in sync.
It’s almost enough for me to want to set up my own RSS aggregator, which is just dumb. Save me from my own stupidity, please, and help me figure out a better solution.
No idea how well it works, but I was just made aware of this and thought I’d share: http://selfoss.aditu.de/
I’m hoping for someone to mirror the reader API and then have the clients allow the hostname to be set, but I also just stood up an instance of tt-rss (http://tt-rss.org/redmine/projects/tt-rss), I’d be happy to make you an account there if you wanted to play with it.
See this? http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/14/google-reader/
” running on Google App Engine” … until Google kills App Engine to “focus” on something else
Well, yeah. But also “here’s your new RSS reader $COMPANY’s VC realizes $COMPANY isn’t monetizing RSS…and vanishes”. =)