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How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds
(openrss.org)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I still miss Google Reader
And the internet as a whole moving away from RSS feeds in general is also not helpful
The crazy thing is, they had a nascent social network going with Google Reader, populated by people who were engaged and interested in the content. And they threw it all away to chase a Facebook clone, which was doomed anyway.
They just seem to make wacky brain-dead decisions all the time and nobody really understands why they make the decisions they do.