![]() ![]() Folders and feeds on the left, unread item counts, a “favorites” section (here, called “Saved”) and then scannable headlines and timestamps on the right. At this point, you’ll probably need to do a little work to get the folders back the way you had them, so it’s best if you complete the reader setup before Google Reader shuts down.Īt first glance, Digg Reader looks a lot like any other Google Reader alternative. Since many of these new arrivals will be Google Reader refugees, the option to import your Google Reader subscription list is available, and if you have a lot of feeds, Digg offers to email you when the import is complete.Īfter signing in, you’ll notice that your folders may not be in the same order they were in Google Reader, but that’s a function of how Google’s Takeout service exports them to its archive and not an error on Digg Reader’s part. When users first visit the new Digg Reader, they’re able to sign up using Twitter, Facebook or Google. “As more and more people shift their reading time over to digital, there is such an enormous supply of amazing content, and so few tools that help you get through that, and identify what’s most important to you, and the networks and people that you care about.”ĭigg.com today is helping to solve that problem, by surfacing the content a large number of people agree is the best, but it doesn’t offer any sort of personalization features, nor does it understand your own interests.ĭigg Reader, however, does. “There’s a problem with reading on the Internet,” he says. , an earlier betaworks project built in conjunction with The New York Times R&D lab, was trying to solve a similar problem as Digg, explains Levine, who had started with Digg CTO Michael Young. They’re often the first to spot interesting stories poised to go viral, and they’re also often the first to share them.įor those behind the new and now Digg Reader, content discovery is an area which they’ve been inspired to work on for years. These are the kinds of people who continually scour a massive amount of web content on a regular basis, and seed networks - like Digg, Reddit or Twitter - with content. (Levine subscribes to over 100 RSS feeds himself, he tells us.) The reader product, says Digg GM Jake Levine, is for the “hyper power users who want to do a lot of work to customize their reading experience.” He says the Digg team is a part of that group, too. To feed ’s ever-present need for the best of the web, a Digg-branded RSS reader fits right in. BuzzFeed, a news site dependent on making its largely list-based content go viral in order to support a smaller handful of more serious news stories (including, incidentally, a must-read on Google Reader’s demise), reported this April that referral traffic from Digg to online publishers has grown by 93 percent over the past 12 months. In the months since, the new has begun to see some success. Under betaworks, the team has been rebuilding Digg from the ground-up, keeping the brand, domain name, the ubiquitous “thumbs up” symbol, and not much more. Why Digg Digs RSSĭigg, which was acquired by betaworks last year, is no longer the Internet powerhouse of years past, where landing on the site’s front page regularly crashed everything from small blogs to larger publishers’ websites, as its massive influx of traffic quickly overwhelmed the sites’ servers. ![]() Through its many incarnations, Google Reader has remained a solid and reliable tool for those who want to ensure they are getting the best from their favorite sections of the Internet.īut even better, they decided to do something about it.ĭigg announced it would build a Google Reader replacement, one that would not only replicate what Google Reader once offered, including its API platform, but that would also better reflect the way we find content in 2013, where networks like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Reddit and others also serve as sources for discovery. “Like many of you, we were dismayed to learn that Google will be shutting down its much-loved, if under-appreciated, Google Reader on July 1st. Immediately following Google’s announcement, the team at grieved, too, saying: They were the Internet’s most active readers, the power users capable of handling more advanced tools for digging up all the interesting things you can find on the web. Though never having grown to a size that made the service worth sustaining in Google’s eyes, its niche user base was devoted and heavily engaged. ![]() ![]() For a subset of the Internet’s population, Google’s March announcement of its intention to shutter its dated, rusting RSS feed-reading service Google Reader was met with a large outcry. ![]()
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