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Oct 24, 2026
Juan Andres Guerrero-SaadeHOST
They needed to make money for Google Cloud.
Ryan NaraineHOST
Why did they kill Google Reader? Still sticks in my craw that I can't, I don't have a Google RSS reader.
Ryan NaraineHOST
That is now obsolete, yeah.
Juan Andres Guerrero-SaadeHOST
Now you can just have, you know, Astra make that for you.
Dom BettinelliHOST
And Tom, why don't you go first? What's your pick this week?
Tom GrelingerPANELIST
So, Dom, you've mentioned several times and other people mentioned that Google Google Reader is one of Google's infamous deprecations.
Dom BettinelliHOST
Yeah.
Tom GrelingerPANELIST
And so when that happened, I I followed quite a few blogs with RSS feeds and that was what it was perfect for.
Dom BettinelliHOST
So you access it through this third-party app, but the aggregation goes through Feedly.
Dom BettinelliHOST
And this is, like you said, this is my same Feedly account that I've had for...
Dom BettinelliHOST
since Google reader went away, which is we're getting close to two decades since it went away.
Dom BettinelliHOST
Has it really been that long? Yes.
Ben ThompsonGUEST
I usually give the credit to Andrew Sullivan.
Ben ThompsonGUEST
But what happened was Google Reader came along and Google Reader didn't support membership.
Ben ThompsonGUEST
customized RSS feeds.
Ben ThompsonGUEST
And so basically it broke his business model.
Mikah SargentHOST
Things have changed quite a bit.
Mikah SargentHOST
I remember reading blogs through Google Reader back in the day and learning about people's read-it-later system at the time.
Mikah SargentHOST
And There are all of these different tools that help you to save stuff or not save stuff or process stuff.
Mikah SargentHOST
I just would like to know, do you have a method or an app these days that you use for saving links, saving things to read later, etc.? Or do you not? Kelly, we'll start with you.
Ben ThompsonGUEST
I usually give the credit to Andrew Sullivan.
Ben ThompsonGUEST
But what happened was Google Reader came along, and Google Reader didn't support customized RSS feeds.
Myke HurleyHOST
Yeah.
Ben ThompsonGUEST
And so basically it broke his business model.
Matt BirchlerHOST
But I, I, I'm so excited about this because, uh, especially with Birchfeed, I built Birchfeed to be, uh, generic kind of out of the box, so it would work with most apps already.
Matt BirchlerHOST
It works with Google Reader, Fresh RSS, and Fever.
Matt BirchlerHOST
So a lot of apps let you add, like, a self-hosted version of those.
Matt BirchlerHOST
Uh, but Unread, the developer reached out, um, 'cause they apparently were getting some feature requests, and they, uh...
Joey JusticeHOST
Goddamn, we gonna go through the news.
Joey JusticeHOST
Well, you know, I should just Google to come back to the Google Reader.
Joey JusticeHOST
Sometimes that could be going a long way.
Joey JusticeHOST
You know, I'll turn the W administration and the cookie shit going on, right? That's how I see it, Chris.
David PierceHOST
There's a New York Times app.
David PierceHOST
Um, Google Reader, RIP.
David PierceHOST
Um-
Nilay PatelGUEST
Are these apps or links to websites?