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# Google Reader is dead
- URL: https://werd.io/google-reader-is-dead/
- Published: 2013-03-14T00:27:16.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-12T11:00:36.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: Web, #ben-684a32da145d7d001be71dae, google reader, open web, rss, #Migrated-1749693130536, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-06-11 21:52

Google Reader was a tentpole of the web I wanted: open, with full freedom of expression that wasn't tethered to the platform you happened to choose to use. That web is now, largely, gone. [Reader will be discontinued this spring.](http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-second-spring-of-cleaning.html)

In the same announcement, Google are talking about killing the standardized CalDAV API in favor of a Google Calendar specific set of calls.

You mean to say we're going to have to go back and build that web again? That sounds like a good thing to do.

(If you're missing Google Reader as much as I am, [The Old Reader](http://theoldreader.com/) is a worthy alternative.)