Google Reader is a discontinued RSS/Atom feed aggregator operated by Google . It was created in early 2005 by Google engineer Chris Wetherell and launched on October 7, 2005, through Google Labs . Google Reader grew in popularity to support a number of programs which used it as a platform for serving news and information to users. Google shut down Google Reader on July 1, 2013, citing declining use.
47-546: Flipboard is a news aggregator and social network aggregation company based in Palo Alto, California , with offices in New York, Vancouver, and Beijing. Its software, also known as Flipboard, was first released in July 2010. It aggregates content from social media , news feeds , photo sharing sites , and other websites, presents it in magazine format, and allows users to "flip" through
94-461: A Google+ +1 button. Users criticized this change because it effectively dismantled existing social networks that used these features and disabled sharing and publishing functions that served as a communications medium for Iranians seeking news sources that couldn't be blocked by the government. The Google+ +1 button and count of how many people liked an article were removed in March 2013 shortly after
141-482: A centralized location. They are named after the Planet aggregator , a server application designed for this purpose. Feed aggregation applications are installed on a PC, smartphone or tablet computer and designed to collect news and interest feed subscriptions and group them together using a user-friendly interface. The graphical user interface of such applications often closely resembles that of popular e-mail clients , using
188-523: A consolidated view of the content in one browser display or desktop application. "Desktop applications offer the advantages of a potentially richer user interface and of being able to provide some content even when the computer is not connected to the Internet. Web-based feed readers offer the great convenience of allowing users to access up-to-date feeds from any Internet-connected computer." Although some applications will have an automated process to subscribe to
235-439: A delivery mechanism for websites to push online content to potential users and as an information aggregator and filter for users." However, it has been pointed out that in order to push the content RSS should be user-friendly to ensure proactive interaction so that the user can remain engaged without feeling "trapped", good design to avoid being overwhelmed by stale data, and optimization for both desktop and mobile use. RSS has
282-594: A demonstration of presentation-independent data. A news aggregator provides and updates information from different sources in a systematized way. "Some news aggregator services also provide update services, whereby a user is regularly updated with the latest news on a chosen topic". Websites such as Google News , Yahoo News , Bing News , and NewsNow where aggregation is entirely automatic, using algorithms which carry out contextual analysis and group similar stories together. Websites such as Drudge Report and HuffPost supplement aggregated news headline RSS feeds from
329-527: A news feed, the basic way to subscribe is by simply clicking on the web feed icon and/or text link. Aggregation features are frequently built into web portal sites, in the web browsers themselves, in email applications, or in application software designed specifically for reading feeds. Aggregators with podcasting capabilities can automatically download media files, such as MP3 recordings. In some cases, these can be automatically loaded onto portable media players (like iPods ) when they are connected to
376-490: A number of reputable mainstream and alternative news outlets, while including their own articles in a separate section of the website. News aggregation websites began with content selected and entered by humans, while automated selection algorithms were eventually developed to fill the content from a range of either automatically selected or manually added sources. Google News launched in 2002 using automated story selection, but humans could add sources to its search engine, while
423-504: A positive impact on marketing since it contributes to better search engine rankings, to building and maintaining brand awareness, and increasing site traffic. Google Reader In early 2001, software engineer Chris Wetherell began a project he called "JavaCollect" that served as a news portal based on web feeds. After working at Google he began a similar project with a small team that launched an improved product on October 7, 2005, as Google Reader. In September 2006, Google announced
470-429: A real-time compilation of what is currently perceived as "hot" and popular on the Internet." Social news aggregators are based on engagement of community. Their responses, engagement level, and contribution to stories create the content and determine what will be generated as RSS feed. Media bias and framing are concepts that fundamentally explain deliberate or accidental differences in news coverage. A simple example
517-719: A redesign for Reader that included new features such as unread counts, the ability to "mark all as read", a new folder-based navigation, and an expanded view so users could quickly scan over several items at once. This also marked the addition of a sharing feature, which allowed readers to publish interesting items for others to see. In January 2007, Google added video content from YouTube and Google Video to Reader. In September 2007, product marketing manager Kevin Systrom (later, founder of Instagram ) announced that Google Reader had graduated out of Google Labs. On March 13, 2013, Google announced they were discontinuing Google Reader, stating
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#1732863318636564-444: A security breach that affected an unspecified number of users between June 2, 2018, and March 23, 2019, and April 21 and 22, 2019, where customer databases including information, such as encrypted passwords and access tokens for third-party services, were accessible to an unauthorized party. All passwords and authentication tokens for third-party services are being reset, although Flipboard noted that almost all passwords were hashed using
611-413: A significant upgrade to its user experience and design. Led by Google designer Jenna Bilotta, the interface now included a cleaner visual style, collapsible navigation, "Friends" navigation, the ability to hide unread counts, and feed bundles. Some of the features of Google Reader in 2013 were: Users could subscribe to feeds using either Google Reader's search function, or by entering in the exact URL of
658-456: A three-panel composition in which subscriptions are grouped in a frame on the left, and individual entries are browsed, selected, and read in frames on the right. Software aggregators can also take the form of news tickers which scroll feeds like ticker tape , alerters that display updates in windows as they are refreshed, web browser macro tools or as smaller components (sometimes called plugins or extensions ), which can integrate feeds into
705-619: A topic differently, or other features, such as matrix-based news aggregation, which spans a matrix over two dimensions, the first dimension being which country an article was published in, and the second being which country it is reporting on. Media aggregators are sometimes referred to as podcatchers due to the popularity of the term podcast used to refer to a web feed containing audio or video. Media aggregators are client software or web-based applications which maintain subscriptions to feeds that contain audio or video media enclosures . They can be used to automatically download media, playback
752-472: A variety of sources for display in one location. They may additionally process the information after retrieval for individual clients. For instance, Google News gathers and publishes material independent of customers' needs while Awasu is created as an individual RSS tool to control and collect information according to clients' criteria. There are a variety of software applications and components available to collect, format, translate, and republish XML feeds,
799-454: Is localized in 21 languages. The original launch of Flipboard in 2010 was exclusively for iPad . It launched the iPhone and iPod Touch versions seventeen months later in December 2011. The company raised more than $ 200 million in funding from investors, and an additional $ 50 million from JPMorgan Chase in July 2015. On May 5, 2012, Flipboard was released for Android phones, beginning with
846-457: Is a list of the subscribed content. The iPhone and Android versions have a "Cover Stories" section on the first page collating only the most recent, important items from all of the subscriptions. This is meant to be read when the user only has a short period of time for reading. News aggregator In computing , a news aggregator , also termed a feed aggregator , content aggregator , feed reader , news reader , or simply an aggregator ,
893-522: Is client software or a web application that aggregates digital content such as online newspapers , blogs , podcasts , and video blogs (vlogs) in one location for easy viewing. The updates distributed may include journal tables of contents, podcasts, videos, and news items. Contemporary news aggregators include Microsoft Start , Yahoo! News , Feedly , Inoreader , and Mozilla Thunderbird . Aggregation technology often consolidates (sometimes syndicated ) web content into one page that can show only
940-659: Is comparing media coverage of a topic in two countries, which are in (armed) conflict with another: one can easily imagine that news outlets, particularly if state-controlled, will report differently or even contrarily on the same events (for instance, the Russo-Ukrainian War ). While media bias and framing have been subject to manual research for a couple of decades in the social sciences, only recently have automated methods and systems been proposed to analyze and show such differences. Such systems make use of text-features, e.g., news aggregators that extract key phrases that describe
987-668: The Samsung Galaxy S3 . On May 30, 2012, a beta version of Flipboard for Android was released through its website. A final stable release of the Flipboard for Android was released on June 22, 2012, in Google Play . The Windows 8 version of the Flipboard app was also demonstrated during the Microsoft 2013 Build Conference and on the Flipboard blog with a video, although no release date was given. On October 22, 2014, Flipboard for Windows 8
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#17328633186361034-416: The operating system or software applications such as a web browser. Social news aggregators collect the most popular stories on the Internet, selected, edited, and proposed by a wide range of people. "In these social news aggregators, users submit news items (referred to as "stories"), communicate with peers through direct messages and comments, and collaboratively select and rate submitted stories to get to
1081-515: The RSS or Atom feed. New posts from those feeds were then shown on the left-hand side of the screen. One could then order that list by date or relevance. Items could also be organized with labels, as well as being able to create "Starred Items" for easy access. From 2007 to 2011, items in Google Reader could be shared with other Web users. Previously this was done by sending a link through e-mail, directing
1128-478: The aggregator user can easily unsubscribe from a feed. The feeds are often in the RSS or Atom formats which use Extensible Markup Language ( XML ) to structure pieces of information to be aggregated in a feed reader that displays the information in a user-friendly interface. Before subscribing to a feed, users have to install either "feed reader" or "news aggregator" applications in order to read it. The aggregator provides
1175-470: The announcement that Google Reader would be discontinued. Google Reader was the first application to make use of Google Gears , a browser extension that let online applications work offline. Users who installed the extension could download up to 2000 items to be read offline. After coming back online, Google Reader updated the feeds. Google Reader stopped supporting this feature in June 2010. A mobile interface
1222-750: The application Apple's "iPad App of the Year" in 2010. When a new update of the software added more features such as support for Google Reader , a web-based aggregator, and content from more publishers, the app received a favorable review from the Houston Chronicle . On May 15, 2011, Flipboard was blocked by the Great Firewall of China . McCue said on his Twitter feed – "China has now officially blocked Flipboard." The company then released its first edition localized for China. Beginning in February 2015,
1269-415: The articles, images, and videos being shared. Readers can also save stories into Flipboard magazines. As of March 2016 the company claims there have been 28 million magazines created by users on Flipboard. The service can be accessed via web browser , or by a Flipboard application for Microsoft Windows and macOS , and via mobile apps for iOS and Android . The client software is available at no charge and
1316-471: The beginning, RSS was not a user-friendly gadget and it took some years to spread. "...RDF-based data model that people inside Netscape felt was too complicated for end users." The rise of RSS began in the early 2000s when the New York Times implemented RSS: "One of the first, most popular sites that offered users the option to subscribe to RSS feeds was the New York Times, and the company's implementation of
1363-405: The company started self-censoring users using the application from China. The content guide for China does not include Twitter and Facebook anymore. Existing subscriptions for Twitter or Facebook are also automatically removed. The application's user interface is designed for intuitive flipping through content. Once the feeds have been set up, the first page seen when the application is opened
1410-468: The defining moments in the shift from a more distributed, independent web to one that is controlled by a few large companies." Reader's interface evolved several times from an early version, described by a Google designer who helped work on the revision as a "river" of news, to various experiences optimized for a wide range of devices, from browsers to the Wii video game console. In late 2008, Google Reader had
1457-432: The end-users computer. By 2011, so-called RSS narrators appeared, which aggregated text-only news feeds, and converted them into audio recordings for offline listening. The syndicated content an aggregator will retrieve and interpret is usually supplied in the form of RSS or other XML -formatted data, such as RDF /XML or Atom . RSS began in 1999 "when it was first introduced by Internet browser pioneer Netscape ". In
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1504-528: The following two weeks. Likewise, NewsBlur 's subscriber base immediately rose from about 1,500 users to over 60,000. In response to the planned closure, Digg also announced plans to build a Google Reader replacement , rebuilding its API and adding features to take advantage of the implicit recommendations of social network activity. Several petitions were started to keep Google Reader running, including one on Change.org with over 100,000 signatures. Instapaper developer Marco Arment speculated that
1551-429: The format was revered as the 'tipping point' that cemented RSS's position as a de facto standard." "In 2005, major players in the web browser market started integrating the technology directly into their products, including Microsoft's Internet Explorer , Mozilla's Firefox and Apple's Safari ." As of 2015, according to BuiltWith.com, there were 20,516,036 live websites using RSS. Web aggregators gather material from
1598-474: The media within the application interface, or synchronize media content with a portable media player. Multimedia aggregators are the current focus. EU launched the project Reveal This to embedded different media platforms in RSS system. "Integrated infrastructure that will allow the user to capture, store, semantically index, categorize and retrieve multimedia, and multilingual digital content across different sources – TV, radio, music, web, etc. The system will allow
1645-484: The new or updated information from many sites. Aggregators reduce the time and effort needed to regularly check websites for updates, creating a unique information space or personal newspaper . Once subscribed to a feed, an aggregator is able to check for new content at user-determined intervals and retrieve the update. The content is sometimes described as being pulled to the subscriber, as opposed to pushed with email or IM. Unlike recipients of some push information,
1692-1126: The older Yahoo News, as of 2005, used a combination of automated news crawlers and human editors. Web-based feeds readers allow users to find a web feed on the internet and add it to their feed reader. These are meant for personal use and are hosted on remote servers. Because the application is available via the web, it can be accessed anywhere by a user with an internet connection. There are even more specified web-based RSS readers. More advanced methods of aggregating feeds are provided via Ajax coding techniques and XML components called web widgets . Ranging from full-fledged applications to small fragments of source code that can be integrated into larger programs, they allow users to aggregate OPML files, email services, documents, or feeds into one interface. Many customizable homepage and portal implementations provide such functionality. In addition to aggregator services mainly for individual use, there are web applications that can be used to aggregate several blogs into one. One such variety—called planet sites—are used by online communities to aggregate community blogs in
1739-441: The problems with news aggregators is that the volume of articles can sometimes be overwhelming, especially when the user has many web feed subscriptions. As a solution, many feed readers allow users to tag each feed with one or more keywords which can be used to sort and filter the available articles into easily navigable categories. Another option is to import the user's Attention Profile to filter items based on their relevance to
1786-443: The product had a loyal but declining following, and they wanted to focus on fewer products. They gave users a sunset period until July 1, 2013, to move their data and suggested: "If you want to retain your Reader data, including subscriptions, you can do so through Google Takeout ." After the closure announcement, Feedly said that more than 500,000 new users had joined them in the following 48 hours, and 3 million in
1833-438: The real reason for the closure was to try to keep everyone reading and sharing information using the now defunct Google+ , and that it signaled the end of the era of unrestricted and interoperable web services like RSS from large organizations like Google, Facebook, and Twitter. Enthusiasts re-created a work-alike replacement called " The Old Reader ." In 2022, Techdirt called the discontinuation of Google Reader "one of
1880-434: The strong bcrypt algorithm (except for some using the insecure and obsolete SHA-1 algorithm, replaced by the service in 2012), and there was no evidence that the access to tokens was abused. In September 2021, Flipboard introduced a new personalisation feature to allow users to customise their For You page. When users open the app, they will see a "tune" icon where they can select topics they are interested in. This feature
1927-406: The user to personalize the service and will have semantic search, retrieval, summarization." Broadcatching is a mechanism that automatically downloads BitTorrent files advertised through RSS feeds. Several BitTorrent client software applications such as Azureus and μTorrent have added the ability to broadcatch torrents of distributed multimedia through the aggregation of web feeds. One of
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1974-485: The user to the shared article; or by creating a basic webpage that includes all shared items from a user's account. In December 2007, Google changed the sharing policy so that items the user marked as shared were automatically visible to their Google Talk contacts. Users criticized this change because there was no way to opt out. Google removed the sharing functionality built into Reader in October 2011, and replaced it with
2021-534: The user's interests. Some bloggers predicted the death of RSS when Google Reader was shut down. Later, however, RSS was considered more of a success as an appealing way to obtain information. "Feedly, likely the most popular RSS reader today, has gone from around 5,000 paid subscribers in 2013 to around 50,000 paid subscribers in early 2015 – that's a 900% increase for Feedly in two years." Customers use RSS to get information more easily while businesses take advantage of being able to spread announcements. "RSS serves as
2068-507: Was a mobile app, only available on tablets and mobile phones. The web client provides webpage links on desktop browsers, and lacks some features of the client software. In February 2017, Flipboard updated their mobile apps for iOS and Android to 4.0, which brought a full redesign to the application, and implemented new features such as smart magazines, which allow users to bundle different things together, such as various news sources, people, and hashtags. On May 29, 2019, Flipboard disclosed
2115-568: Was added to combat doomscrolling and allow users to have greater control of what they see. In December 2023, Flipboard began a phased process of federating into the Open Social Web ( Fediverse ), via the ActivityPub protocol. The reaction to the application was mainly positive, with Techpad calling it a "killer" iPad application. Time magazine named it one of the 50 best inventions of 2010. Apple reviewed Flipboard positively, and named
2162-579: Was released on May 18, 2006. It could be used by devices that support XHTML or WAP 2.0 . On May 12, 2008, Google announced a version of Google Reader targeted at iPhone users. in December 2010, Google released a Google Reader app for Android, available from the Android Market . On May 4, 2006, Google released a new feature which enabled feeds from Reader to be displayed on iGoogle (formerly Google Personalized Homepage). In March 2010, Google announced and released Google Reader Play. Play presented
2209-518: Was rolled out to Windows Phone devices starting with the Nokia Lumia 2520 . In March 2014, Flipboard bought Zite , a magazine-style reading app, from the CNN television network. Flipboard's content filtering , topic engine and recommendations system were integrated from this acquisition. Zite was shut down on December 7, 2015. In February 2015, Flipboard became available on the web. Up until then, Flipboard
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