RSS not dead, Google Reader should add real-time feeds

Post date Posted Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at 3:31 pm by Jason Cartwright |

 rss vs twitter

TechCrunchIT recently posted (about 45 minutes ago) about the death of RSS, essentially highlighting a trend of people migrating away from feed readers like Google Reader to more real-time information like Twitter and FriendFeed.

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I’ve thought about this trend recently, wouldn’t this be solved by Google Reader adding a real-time feed, so new stories come in as they’re posted.

Admittedly it wouldn’t solve the content discovery problem, as the real-time feed would only be for the feeds you’ve subscribed to.

Perhaps they could add a trending topics or suggested blogs module on the side ?

Anyone from Google reading this ? Google Reader is great, but it’s time for an update.

More @ TechCrunchIT


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