Earlier this year the search engine giant Google put the web world in
shock by announcing that it is going to shut down its popular RSS reader named ‘Google Reader’. Following the news one
of the leading social bookmarking sites Digg announced that it will come up
with an alternative (Digg Reader) to
that.
Digg now officially announced that its reader is now ready to go public,
and it will be launched on next week as the beta version. The company even
admitted the news on its official blog post that it is going to unveil the
first version of the RSS reader termed as ‘Digg Reader’ next week. However, the
news of Digg’s reader has come in a very crucial moment as the complete
shutdown of Google Reader is now just a few days away. Eventually Google will shut down this popular service
on 1st July, 2013.
The best part is users will be able to migrate to Digg Reader from
Google Reader, the feature that everyone was hoping for. Digg also claimed that
the layout and interface of its reader will provide a
clean hustle free reading experience. It will put the focus on the posts,
articles, images and videos on the pretty same manner. That’s not all as Digg
will also integrate a few useful mobile apps that sync with the overall
experience of a Reader.
The CTO of the company
informed that the integration of Pocket
and Instapaper will be available in
the Digg Reader at the time of launch, and his company will keep on integrating
more likely services in the post launch period to make it more convenient and
fruitful to the users. The new reader will also provide support for important
actions like sharing, organizing, subscribing and saving.
Digg shared that it will
give its priority on an Android application, convenient filtration of news with
respect to reader’s interest, better ranking and integration with a few popular
3rd party tools like Evernote and Buffer during the first 60 days
from the launch date. Reader will also be offered a better notifications and
search base in the days to come.
Earlier Digg announced the
Reader, which it would be offering, will come up with a 'freemium' service.
This simply means that Digg will offer all the new features and a large portion
of the future offerings of the Reader for free of cost.
Digg has confirmed that the
web users will be given access to the Digg Reader Version 1 by June 26th
of the current year. It has to be added here that for the time being the new
Reader will be labeled as beta.
With the shutdown of the
Google Reader, most of the RSS users might be looking for a suitable
alternative which will provide the same purpose. If the Digg Reader eventually
delivers the promises it is claiming for then it might just be the ultimate substitute
that users are looking for.
There are already a few
popular RSS readers available in the web world like NewsBlur and Feedly. The
new Digg reader will have to compete with these readers in order to survive the
upcoming acid test.
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