He’s here, tuned to all frequencies, enjoying every beat, and ahead the road seems all uphill.
He’s here, another here. Engine started, checking the gears, and looking forward with a grateful heart.
Google Nose Google Nose Home
Google Treasure Maps Google Maps Blog Post
Gmail Blue Gmail Blue Home
Youtube is shutting down and selecting a winner
They actually started announcing nominees… 12 hours of footage
Google Fiber to the Pole Google Fiber to the Pole Home
Google Reader is a convenient way to sync between our RSS clients today, but back when it was launched in 2005 (before iPhones), it destroyed the market for desktop RSS clients. Client innovation completely stopped for a few years until iOS made it a market again — but every major iOS RSS client is still dependent on Google Reader for feed crawling and sync.
Now, we’ll be forced to fill the hole that Reader will leave behind, and there’s no immediately obvious alternative. We’re finally likely to see substantial innovation and competition in RSS desktop apps and sync platforms for the first time in almost a decade.
It may suck in the interim before great alternatives mature and become widely supported, but in the long run, trust me: this is excellent news.
I won’t miss it. Never used the damn thing. Didn’t trust the idea of a big company like Google’s interests being so aligned with mine that I could trust them to get all my news.
And besides, I didn’t think the mailbox approach to news was right. Who cares how many unread items there are. I like the river of news approach and I have a very fine set of rivers that keep me well supplied with news and podcasts. Have a look.
http://tabs.mediahackers.org/?panel=dave
July 1 isn’t that far away, but there’s time to get it together. Next time, please pay a fair price for the services you depend on. Those have a better chance of surviving the bubbles.
PS: This message attracted comments some pretty sick comments, so I deleted the whole thread.
