I have dearly missed the Google Reader app for my Android device and Google appears to have finally paid heed to this need. The Android devices today embraced the official Google Reader for Android based smartphones bringing your subscriptions right to the mobile device.
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Bit.ly, the URL shortener has grown by leaps and bounds, especially after Twitter adopted it as its default URL shortener. To be honest the service has done all the hard work at efficiently handling the load of shortening URLs on Twitter which is why it is expanding. The service is releasing new APIs plus new partnerships that are under way. Talking about partnerships, I bet Bit.ly is going to get a huge boost with Google Reader as it readily uses it for shortening URLs. That’s just one side of the picture, there are more services that continue to leverage the link shortener, namely CBS, SixApart for its TypePad all the way to Mozilla building up a retweet button using Bit.ly to shorten links.
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Google has definitely taken the cake away from many a services online, be it search or simply its Google Reader. One such service that has been hit the most is Bloglines which has had its days of success but is slowly decaying ready to fall in its grave. I wont call Google the only killer of Bloglines, there are other players who have taken its place by storm with the real time-ness to boast about; like Twitter, FriendFeed, etc. I am not pleased to see that it continues to keep its ‘beta’ site in beta after all this time and that there have been no new features for a very long time, which are all indications of a site undergoing the last rituals to head into a coffin. Bloglines has got a lot to do if it is to push me off the pessimistic approach I have towards its future.
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