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21 Mar 2013 If you use Feedburner and Google closed it, what would you do?
One of the things I've heard over and over from non-technical users who have the same concerns now that Feedburner is owned by Google, is where do we go if we want to switch? Ahh. There is no place to go. Why is there no competitor? Here's another question. If you use Blogger or Blogspot and Google turned off RSS/Atom feeds on those platforms, what would you do? From an old post that turned up in Dave Winer's link blog and came to my attention via a feed reader. Posted to G+ and then copied to Twitter, Facebook and a blog via an Atom feed created by a 3rd party because of course G+ doesn't have Atom feeds.  What about Feedburner? (Scripting News) »What about Feedburner? Wednesday, August 1, 2007 by Dave Winer. Continuing the Status of the Platform story... Permalink to this paragraph. A picture named ofsj.jpg 5. You know I've been writing about... [from: Google+ Posts] [ 21-Mar-13 8:59am ] 20 Mar 2013 News Readers for Chromebooks
With Google Reader going, and Google Currents being Android and iOS, what would Google recommend for reading general news on Chromebooks? Flipboard and Apple's Newsstand are also platform restricted and not available on Chromebooks. It seems to me that Chromebooks need a general purpose news reader just as much as laptops / PCs and mobile phones / tablets. Chromebooks are inherently portable and reading news is an obvious use case when on the move and sitting somewhere like a cafe or on a train. So apparently we need a cloud based, browser based, general purpose news reader for the Chromebook platform just as much as on the other platforms. And of course, it should be accessible on phones / tablets / Chromebooks / laptops and sync read/unread across all the platforms you access it from. So if Google don't want to provide it, we'll find it elsewhere. [from: Google+ Posts] [ 20-Mar-13 8:28am ] 17 Mar 2013 They've poisoned the well in the worst way; they made it clear that Google is worse than mercenary - it's banal.
  God Damn It, Google | TechCrunch »Once, I envisioned Google's destiny as a rich tapestry, obscure services hooking in through engines and tools to a vastness of data, and, at the other end of the telescope, a single point of entry thr... [from: Google+ Posts] [ 17-Mar-13 5:52pm ] Google Glass and a related up tick in interest in Virtual Reality is making me nostalgic for 1990 (and it's view of the future).
I'm almost ready to coin a new word Futurastalgia. Nostalgia for an old and alternate future that didn't quite arrive.   USC starts a web hub for DIY, open source virtual reality projects »For the sheer variety of virtual reality headsets available, there's been few resources available for those who want to craft their own devices. USC [from: Google+ Posts] [ 17-Mar-13 1:04pm ] What if Facebook built a Google Reader competitor right into Facebook?
I'm very, very uncertain of how good an idea this is for all of us in the long term. But it's food for thought, no?  Google Reader debacle could help cement Facebook over Google+ - »How can Facebook capitalize on Google's stupidity with Google Reader? [from: Google+ Posts] 16 Mar 2013 Dammit. Chrome's G+ button has just lost my text. Again.
Anyway, the attached article is short but important.  : Why I love RSS and You Do Too »Even if you don't use an RSS reader, you still use RSS. If you subscribe to any podcasts, you use RSS. Flipboard and Twitter are RSS readers, even if it's not obvious and they do other things besides.... [from: Google+ Posts] [ 16-Mar-13 8:23pm ] Superb article about the history of RSS and Google Reader. Unfortunately it's TL;DR!
  Google's Lost Social Network »How Google accidentally built a truly beloved social network, only to steamroll it with Google+ . The sad, surprising story of Google Reader. [from: Google+ Posts] [ 16-Mar-13 8:44am ] The statue on one of the roundabouts outside Jerez on the way to the Jerez circuit. I have to say, I would like to live in a town that puts up statues of motorcycles!
 [from: Google+ Posts] [ 16-Mar-13 8:27am ] 'Fauxstalgia'. Nostalgia for a time you never knew.
[from: Google+ Posts] [ 16-Mar-13 8:25am ] 14 Mar 2013 Oh, the irony.
http://corte.si/posts/socialmedia/rip-google-reader.html A hyper competitive space with dozens of choices? Reader made its first public appearance a couple of months before this, in October 2005. I remember this period well - it was a time of immense excite...  [from: Google+ Posts] Google announces closure of Google Reader. WTF!
http://googleblog.blogspot.ca/2013/03/a-second-spring-of-cleaning.html http://googlereader.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/powering-down-google-reader.html This is why we can't have nice things. Google Reader was just better than most of the alternatives back in the day so they all slowly disappeared as everyone switched. Which then meant there was no money in building a better alternative because Google owned the space. Now it's not paying it's way in Google so they shut it and have effectively killed a whole segment of the software market. And as Dave Winer might say, it's worse than it appears because it kills the idea of rich feeds whether it's RSS/Atom or whatever, which is why G+, Twitter, Facebook and a host of other newer services don't provide them. Meanwhile we're all supposed to be switching to mobile devices with "Apps" so we get fed "News Services" like Currents, Flipboard and so on that only run on these mobile devices and have more focus on surface froth in the UI than on actually consuming large quantities of news. And they heavily push MSM sources who will pay for the privilege of being highly visible. The real losers here are the small blogs on wordpress.org, blogger.com and others who will lose visibility, readers and comment engagement because there's no longer any easy way to follow them. I'm all right jack because I never used Reader much, preferring my own home written news reader (php+MySql hosted on my rented server) but I'm already suffering from the lack of RSS on major services. Yahoo! and Marissa Mayer are you watching all this? Here's hoping you pick up the ball that Google just tossed over their shoulder. You've got the resources, servers and infrastructure to directly replace them. And the real puzzle? There's a whole bunch of ex semantic web, Atom, XML people inside Google. Did they all get sidelined?   A second spring of cleaning »We're living in a new kind of computing environment. Everyone has a device, sometimes multiple devices. It's been a long time since we have had this rate of change--it probably hasn't happened since th... [from: Google+ Posts] [ 14-Mar-13 7:52am ] 13 Mar 2013    BMW pedelec with Bosch drive | »BMW will sell pedelec bicycles this year - announced elektrobike-online.com. [from: Google+ Posts] [ 13-Mar-13 4:21pm ] Seems there's one or two people around with Vanity URLs for their Google Plus profiles. So how did that happen, and how do I get one?
eg https://plus.google.com/+Scobleizer [from: Google+ Posts] [ 13-Mar-13 7:55am ] 09 Mar 2013 I'm a sucker for a good aphorism:-
"Science is so powerful that it drags us kicking and screaming towards the truth despite our best efforts to avoid it." "We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think." "Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors." http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=3984 Predators run to eat. Prey run to live. Wealth corrupts. And absolute wealth corrupts absolutely.  No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons (Re-reloaded) » Culpa. »Say what you will about this Peter Watts guy, he sure has a way with punchy quotes. Just look at some of the one-liners he's come up with that various folks have pinched for their sigfiles, or stuck o... [from: Google+ Posts] [ 09-Mar-13 8:44am ] 07 Mar 2013 Here's a good one for Google Play specialists. How do I copy a Winamp playlist to Google Play? Can anyone point me at a simple recipe? A quick search turned up some youtube vids and some descriptions that sounded horrible and awkward involving going via Windows Media player.
Search both in Google and Google plus was effectively useless as it just wanted to promote Winamp for Android or it was full of spam for keycodes to Winamp Pro. [from: Google+ Posts] [ 07-Mar-13 1:26pm ] #WeLoveTheNHS If you're in the UK, please help #SaveTheNHS by signing this petition. https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/page/s/nhs-section-75-share1
And here's an example of why. http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/mar/02/nhs-commercialisation-bereaved-mother-fight   Stop the NHS privatisation plot »Jeremy Hunt is planning to force doctors to help him privatise more of our NHS. I've just signed a petition to stop him - click here to sign it too. [from: Google+ Posts] [ 07-Mar-13 7:24am ] 06 Mar 2013 Shame there's no photo. The electric Bromptons have the added advantage that they deal with the theft problem in London. You just fold them up and wheel them inside with you.
 The Electric Transport Shop originally shared this post: Ben Irvine from CycleLifestyle.co.uk takes our electric Brompton around London for a day. see what he says thinks here - http://ow.ly/ir7Ul   Electric Dreams: Why e-bikes are the future of transport in London »Wow. I've just had the most fun I've had since the eighties. And, in the process, I've had a revelation about the future of urban transport. With thre... [from: Google+ Posts] [ 06-Mar-13 4:57pm ] 05 Mar 2013 This is a good one. Just read it, m'kay?
http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2013/03/05/honesty-and-the-human-body/   Honesty and the Human Body »Kevin is a 2013 blogging resident visiting us from his home blog over at Melting Asphalt. In economics and biology, honesty is understood in terms of signals. Signals are anything used to communicate,... [from: Google+ Posts] [ 05-Mar-13 6:17pm ] 04 Mar 2013 Yet another story about London's Tech City, Silli Roundabout, Hoxditch startups, Techhub and Google Campus. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/04/ceo_of_tech_city_joanna_shields/ What's slightly weird is that it seems surprisingly hard to find a big list of startups and even moderate success stories. Doesn't anyone want the free publicity or is it all so stealth that it's invisible?
 Queen of Tech City says she will decide what Tech City does soon now o The Register »CEO of Tech City Joanna Shields says that the "woolly" objectives of London's (in)famous Tech City predated her, but she isn't giving much more clarity on what the government initiative should achieve... [from: Google+ Posts] [ 04-Mar-13 9:41am ] 28 Feb 2013 Every once in a while I stumble over this website that dates from 1993. http://deoxy.org/deoxyold.htm Keep Clicking.
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