The Nerdwork that supports all the geeky products on the internet is abuzz with the imminent death of Google Reader on 1 July 2013.
If you have been living in a Facebook bubble then let me explain quickly what Google Reader does/did: It was/is a site that you could post a collection of RSS feeds to from sites whose content you liked and then read all that content in one place. RSS? Click here to see what MyPE’s RSS Feed looks like.
In order to assist people looking to migrate to other platforms Google has a Data Liberation platform called Google Takeout – essentially this platform allows you to dump the data from ALL or SELECTED Google products to your local machine in portable and open formats‚ making it easy to export to other services quickly.
Google Takeout supports the following services at this time:
- +1′d sites
- Blogger
- Buzz
- Contacts and Circles
- Docs
- Google+ Profile
- Google+ Pages
- Google+ Stream
- Picasa Web Albums
- Reader
- Voice
- YouTube
Fair warning – if you are a heavy Picassa and YouTube user then the download will be rather large.
Does anyone know if Facebook has a platform that allows you to do the same?
