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This is slightly off-topic, but since everybody's commenting about it anyway: Was Google Reader (and Posterous, to a lesser extent) the tipping point for awaren
by resu_nimda 14y ago
This is slightly off-topic, but since everybody's commenting about it anyway: Was Google Reader (and Posterous, to a lesser extent) the tipping point for awareness and activism surrounding the shutdown of free services? This could be a big thing in 2013.
- brianwillis 14y agoThe tipping point for me was Twitter's increasingly hostile approach to third party devs. I've been racking my brain trying to think of the first service that I used regularly that was shut down. Pownce maybe? (anyone else remember that?). I'm currently hunting for a replacement for Gmail that is self-hosted, or at least a solution where the cost of switching providers is low (i.e. I could shift my email to a new host without changing my email address or losing my message history). I'll probably end up using some sort of IMAP provider. There are a lot of features I'd stand to lose though. Conversation view is hugely useful, and Gmail's spam filter is just unbeatable.
- xcasex 14y agopownce was indeed awesome. both twitter and in some part google have recently acted very hostile to the notion of the open web. (Although referring to corporations as a singular entity irks me somewhat)