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by danilocampos 4839 days ago
> So RSS will always have a place.

Indeed,

> but it's not a hot technology around which you can build a business on the scale that will move needles for Google.
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Daniel_Newby 4838 days ago
Not a hot technology? It is widely used by science and technology leaders who have to stay on top of the literature in their field. We're talking heads of $10M research programs, principal investigators, conference organizers, and so forth.

Google could have kept it around just to sell Apps to C*Os. "Apps is like Reader for secretaries."

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