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Facebook launches RSS Reader

A few months ago, Google announced that it would shut down Google Reader, a RSS subscription service, on July 1 this year. Google said the shutdown was mainly due to a decline in the number of Google Reader users, and as a company they wanted to devote all their energy to fewer products. In fact, Google Reader service was shut down, in addition to the reasons mentioned by people, such as too few users, service gradually replaced by other products and slow commercialization and other reasons, there is another unknown reason-privacy issues, which together with other reasons eventually led to the death of Google Reader.

Now that the Google Reader service is about to shut down, it would be a good time for Facebook to launch a RSS reader at this new product launch, giving users plenty of time to migrate from Google Reader. In addition, the appearance of the word "RSS feeds" in the Facebook code, coupled with the fact that Facebook enables the "#" topic tag function, makes it a natural thing for Facebook to push the RSS reader.

It is speculated that Facebook's RSS reader will not be a "clone" version of Google Reader, but will be able to enhance the traditional RSS reading model through social data.

People in the industry think that Facebook RSS may not be able to replace Google Reader because of its social nature.

Eliza Kern, a contributor to the US technology website Gigaom, wrote, "as a big fan of Google Reader, I am not interested in the recently rumored Facebook RSS reader, because what users need is the tool itself, not a social platform."

Eliza Kern says the main attraction of Google Reader is that it is a secure, stable and reliable tool for news import and reading, subscribing to everything you want to see and unaffected by trends. When subscribing to a web bookmark, Eliza Kern wants to be able to read all of it, not just to see hot events, but to work.

In addition, Eliza Kern does not want RSS readers to be social, does not want all friends to know what they read every day, and can be obtained through Twitter and Facebook when social news is needed. As a social reader auto-sharing experiment in the Washington Post shows, people don't want everyone to know what they're reading.

The Facebook concept has always been a bridge between users and friends, new things and things they care about, and if Facebook does launch a RSS reader, it will embed these social attributes.

However, Facebook social news has plenty of room for growth. Eliza Kern said users can "like" many news organizations, as well as journalists, celebrities and business leaders. In fact, you only need to skim through the information stream quickly to know almost all the news and the content posted by your friends. This is a very good way to keep abreast of current hot news, or to track the progress of old news. However, social news is a completely different experience from Google Reader. Only a company like Digg can understand the difference.

Eliza Kern said Digg's new RSS news reader may incorporate some social features, but it can still be distinguished from hot news on Digg.com as a separate product. Although Google Reader also has social features that users like, these are ancillary, not a substitute for subscriptions.

Does it make sense for Facebook to build an exclusive venue for news on its website? The answer is yes. However, Eliza Kern said he would not stop looking for the next RSS reader product.

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