It starts, spins off, buys, and operates companies, mostly in media. That Digg would even attempt to build a Google Reader replacement speaks to the culture of its parent company, Betaworks. But to rejuvenate that we have to make the verb meaningful again." Digg buttons have remained remarkably resilient around the Internet. "We’ve got to rejuvenate that whole infrastructure. "I would love to be able to configure the Digg button to just do what I want," McLaughlin says. Theme alert: You are about to read a story about the history and rebirth of a relic of a much more recent Industrial Revolution. A strip where nature is artfully grafted onto an old abandoned rail line, butting up against avant garde architecture, to create something beautiful at once entirely new and constantly changing, with passing of the seasons and minute by minute as we walked through it. The High Line is where the city’s industrial past becomes something entirely modern and, at least in a boutique way, natural. I’d never seen the High Line before, and McLaughlin was clearly thrilled to show it off. It’s a gorgeous sunny afternoon in early May and McLaughlin is walking me along the High Line in New York City, just a few blocks from the offices that house Digg and its parent company Betaworks. You can also add /feed/ to the end of any author page URL for author-specific feeds, like so.Everyone who runs a commenting system ends up killing themselves or shooting up a post office. Speaking of which, Ars Technica offers multiple segmented RSS feeds for readers. Luckily, there's an established market for old-school and reimagined RSS readers-and some very good options. But it's highly unlikely that Google would invest so much into putting Discover-like feeds into its phones, web-based laptops, browsers, search engine, Nest hubs, and more, simply to surrender and say, "Actually, we'll just show you your headlines again." Discover feeds are also a space that Google controls, so it can infuse them with advertising, which it can't do with RSS. Last week, Chrome updated its guidance for site owners looking to have readers "Follow" their sites, asking them to make feed titles descriptive and to select a single feed for readers instead of offering multiple sections.Ĭhrome-watching blogs like to raise the specter of Google Reader in headlines when discussing Google's attempts to turn apps and devices into content hubs. There's some ambiguity there-but also evidence that Google is sticking with its long-gestating efforts to harness the open RSS standard in the Google ecosystem of "Follow." AdvertisementĮnlarge / Google's "Follow" button, now appearing in Chrome Canary builds. will use to communicate with the browser." Tofel writes that the underlying code of the feature "strongly suggests" an RSS-based feed reader, based on the specific language of "web feeds." Then again, that same code section, powering the interaction between browser and sidebar, notes that it will be "the interface that Discover Feed content. Kevin Tofel of About Chromebooks thinks so. Enabling that #following-feed-sidepanel flag (now also available in Chrome's testing build, Canary) adds another option to the sidebar: Feed.įeeds? Like RSS feeds, the kind we once had in dear, departed Google Reader, slain for the sins of Google+? Over the weekend, the Chrome Story blog noticed a new flag in Gerrit, the unstable testing build of Chrome's open source counterpart Chromium. It's unlikely, but never say never when it comes to Google product decisions.Ĭhrome added a sidebar for browsing bookmarks and Reading List articles back in March. Tucked away inside a recent bleeding-edge Chrome build is a "Following feed" that has some bloggers dreaming of the return of Google Reader. Does Google enjoy teasing and sometimes outright torturing some of its products' most devoted fans? It can seem that way.
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