Instapaper developer Marco Arment speculated that the real reason for the closure was to try to keep everyone reading and sharing information using Google+, and that it signalled the end of the era of unrestricted and interoperable web services like RSS from large organizations like Google, Facebook, and Twitter.
He spent two years at Google; during the first, he worked on Gmail, Google Reader, and other products, and during the second he worked on the Corporate Development team.
Feeds can be read from a Google Reader account, allowing the user to subscribe or unsubscribe from feeds, mark items as read or star them in RSS Bandit and have these changes reflected in Google Reader
The Old Reader is a web-based news feed reader that attempts to provide a similar feature set to the now-defunct Google Reader.
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