"On just this topic, wondering myself why Google killed their Reader, its kinda interesting that Google hasnt provided any significant rationale. Especially after so many people have spoken up. From what they have said, it seems clear that Google thinks RSS is dying because its looking at useage stats from its Reader, but the problem is that Google's reader sucks so bad, its the product that is dying, not the medium. This is obviously why so many other companies are jumping in. Re: Google's perspective, I figured it ultimately had to do with G+. For just that reason, Ive been going back to G+ to try to understand how they expect that to work, but so far, they have not provided a feature set that is an adequate replacemnet. On the contrary, I asked the folks who circled me on G+ to let me know if they are recieving my updates, and in fact, the majority are not receiving my posts. Its the same for me too. I am following a lot of people on G+ who put out updates, links, news, etc. that..." - Andrew Baron