More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours

Re:More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly ... by maratd on Saturday March 16, 2013 @06:06PM (#5386993)

> RSS is just a money sink

You guys are missing the most obvious point and the big boys have already figured it out. Subscribe to Engadget, Gizmodo, etc.

What you'll get is an excerpt of the story with a "click this link to read the rest".

After I click, I'm on their site. I want to read/post comments? I'm on their site.

RSS is free advertising for content providers and a way to get more eyeballs. Google is foolish for putting all of their eggs in the social basket.

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Re:More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly ... by Samuel_Michon on Saturday March 16, 2013 @08:50PM (#5387457)

I don't subscribe to feeds that don't syndicate full posts. The last few years, many feeds have switched to paid membership or putting separate ad posts in the stream, "This week RSS is brought to you by X". I'm fine with either of those solutions.

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Re:More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly ... by kzrdude on Sunday March 17, 2013 @06:18AM (#5388735)

I subscribe to arstechnica because they have a meaningful, long blurb. If I like it I'm going to read the whole thing.

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Re:More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly ... by saraid216 on Saturday March 16, 2013 @08:05PM (#5387337)

> What you'll get is an excerpt of the story with a "click this link to read the rest".

I remember like... what, six years ago? when people were arguing over whether or not this was an evil thing to do.

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