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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Stuart Dredge

Google Reader alternatives: how will you survive the shutdown?

Digg Reader
Digg Reader is just one of the apps pitching their potential as Google Reader alternatives

Google broke the news that its Google Reader RSS aggregation service was to close back in March, although the company at least gave users a decent amount of time to switch to an alternative.

The deadline is approaching though: from 1 July Google Reader will be no more. A number of services are welcoming its users with open arms, including Feedly, Flipboard and the about-to-launch Digg Reader.

We'd like to know what your post-Google plans are for monitoring your news feeds. If you've switched already (or had already done so before the shutdown announcement), which service are you using and why?

What do you like about it, and what features would you like to see added in the future? But also, how do you see RSS and news-reading evolving in a more general sense?

While some people suggested Google Reader's closure would be one of the final nails in RSS' coffin, the frenetic competition between the services jostling to replace it – as well as the work being done by apps like Flipboard, Pulse, Zite and News360 – suggests that may be untrue.

But rather than tell you which reader service you should be switching to, we'd rather hear your views. The comments section is open, so have your say on the pros and cons of the services you've tried, and how you'd like to see them develop in the future.

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