Dive summary:
- On July 1, 2013 Google Reader, a web-based program that allowed users to subscribe to news feeds from their favorite sites, will be shutting down.
- The program was beloved by many users as both a news feed reader because of the sense of community the program created; when Google removed the sharing features and replaced them with Google+ users understood that the program was not for long.
- There are already programs vying to be the Reader replacement including Feedly, who is planning to launch a clone of the program.
From the article:
"And now, the entire product is going away for good. This wasn’t exactly unforeseen. Reader had long been basically ignored, its updates were few and far between. Last month, when many users started reporting problems, Google simply ignored the issue for several days before even commenting on it. The end of Reader has been in plain sight for some time. Wired asked Shellen if he was sad to see Google finally pull the plug."