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The real tragedy here is the destruction of Reader for a failed and ill-conceived product. Had Google used the passionate Reader community as a base to build a
by crystaln 8y ago
The real tragedy here is the destruction of Reader for a failed and ill-conceived product.
Had Google used the passionate Reader community as a base to build a high quality content based social network, they would be a powerful force in social and could have an enormous positive social impact.
- speedplane 8y agoReader had nothing to do with Google+, yet the comparison is still relevant. It would have been much easier to turn Reader into a social network than to create one from scratch. It's still shocking to me that Google shut down reader. I'm not sure I've come across any company that has abandoned such a beloved product.
- lucaspottersky 8y agoof course it does. when they decided to shut it down it was because they wanted to channel Readers users to Google+
- mcv 8y agoA system that does both social networking and RSS reading, and enables blog sharing and commenting in a integrated way, could be absolutely perfect.
- crystaln 8y agoThey shut Reader down specifically to shift users over to G+, instead of turning Reader into a broader social network. This would be like if Mark Zuckerberg had shut down Facebook b/c he didn't want to build a yearbook product and started Socialbook to replace it.