If
is your lifeline for information, ideas and workflow you'll need to brace yourself. Google announced today they will be removing the free service from it's services July 1, 2013.
The announcement wasn't a total shock to the web and social media industry. According to a
, "For the last 18 months, most prominent RSS software authors and experts have cautioned users and developers from relying too much on the Google Reader system, in part because it became clear the product was no longer core to Google as a company."
and how third party apps and developers will live in a world without the feature.
So what are you to do?
How can I download my Reader data?
Google Reader will be retired on July 1, 2013. If you'd like to download a copy of all your Reader data before then, you can do so through Google Takeout. You'll receive your subscription data in an XML file, and the following information will be downloaded as JSON files:
List of people that you follow
List of people that follow you
Items you have starred
Items you have liked
Items you have shared
Items shared by people you follow
Notes you have created
Items with comments
Click here to start downloading your Reader data from Takeout. Once downloaded, your subscription data should be easily transferable to another product, where you can continue to keep up with your online reading.
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