If I recall, the Friend Connect is powered through and works with Google Reader. Will that be axed too? I don't know but I intend to find out. From what I have read so far, Google decided to axe Google Reader to get more people and bloggers to integrate into the Google+ social network. The thing is, I do that already and have done that since it first came out. I use a couple different readers and feeds to get my messages out. I basically don't understand Google wanting to axe something that is very popular on many networks for so many people around the world. When someone finds out why, instead of just a money issue kind of thing as being the sole reason, would you please bonk me in the head and tell me please?
Happy Trails!
An easy way for them to make money would be to add ads to the service, instead of getting rid of it entirely, but I guess that makes sense and they don't understand that for some reason. I think them disposing of the entire reader service as a whole is the biggest mistake Google has ever made. They will lose out in the end and may have to enter it back into service after the world goes on strike against them. I mean, it's a possibility the backlash could bring it back once it's gone. We'll see I guess.
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