[Tech Fun] Winer thinks Google Reader is an “inside-the-bubble” product, too

October 10, 2005 by wfzimmerman | No comments

Winer thinks Google Reader is an “inside-the-bubble” product, too

I tried the Google news reader again, this morning, after it had loaded all my feeds (it seems to take quite a few hours to do that).This is the second blog-related product they’ve come out with recently that appears not to have been touched by human beings before it was introduced to the world (the other was the ridiculous blog search). I think they need to start using their own stuff before releasing it. And maybe look at the competition for ideas. When you’re first into a market there’s an excuse for being so wrong. But the first of this kind of software shipped six years ago…

Winer’s right about the software, but he’s missing the point. Google is deliberately trying to defeature the aggregator category to make it make sense for the 99% of end users who don’t know and don’t want to know what RSS is.

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Posted by wfzimmerman to Tech Fun at 10/10/2005 08:07:08 AM

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