Great article looking back at the growth and termination of Google Reader.
Google Reader was supposed to be much more than a tool for nerds. But it never got the chance.
Source: How Google Reader died — and why the web misses it more than ever – The Verge
I was a big Google Reader user and also used it as an example of the morselization of the web, at the time. I also thought there was a need to have some sort of aggregator for all the content and people in our lives.
And, I must say, I also was a victim of being a Cassandra in a large organization that had bigger issues and scale requirements to tackle.
I sometimes forget that even folks who have all the money and all the smarts also fail spectacularly. Good to know I’m not alone.
