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Enlarge / Digging into bleeding-edge Chrome code has made some bloggers hopeful, but Google has been focused on its own feeds for a while now. (credit: Getty Images)
Does Google enjoy teasing and sometimes outright torturing some of its products' most devoted fans? It can seem that way.
Tucked away inside a recent bleeding-edge Chrome build is a "Following feed" that has some bloggers dreaming of the return of Google Reader. It's unlikely, but never say never when it comes to Google product decisions.
Chrome
added a sidebar
for browsing bookmarks and Reading List articles back in March. Over the weekend, the Chrome Story blog
noticed a new flag
in
Gerrit
, the unstable testing build of Chrome's open source counterpart Chromium. Enabling that
#following-feed-sidepanel
flag (now also available in Chrome's testing build,
Canary
) adds another option to the sidebar: Feed.
About a decade ago, the average internet user might well have heard of RSS. Really Simple Syndication, or Rich Site Summary — what the acronym stands for depends on whom you ask — is an open standard that websites and podcasts can use to offer a feed of content to their users, one easily understood by lots of different computer programs. Today, though RSS continues to power many applications on the web, it has become, for most people, an obscure technology.
The story of how this happened is really two stories. The first is a story about a broad vision for the web’s future that never quite came to fruition. The second is a story about how a collaborative effort to improve a popular standard devolved into one of the most contentious forks in the history of open-source software development.
RSS is by no means dead at all, but it is just not as prominent as it once was. It is still often found on websites and even some social media sites, even if they do not advertise it with an icon (I use a browser extension to check a site). I use it every single day, and it is still my preferred way of tracking news and updates across 100 plus sites daily all in one place without adverts and distractions.
See https://www.vice.com/en/article/a3mm4z/the-rise-and-demise-of-rss
No it's not Google Reader coming back (we've all moved on already from there?).
The Web Feed feature that has been hanging behind a flag in the Chrome web browser for several months has officially gone public. Adrienne Porter Felt, a Chrome engineer, took to Twitter to tout the ability for Android users to follow sites and read their RSS feeds whenever they draw a new tab. Calling it a project that's "near and dear" to her.
Google Reader very likely was killed off by Google as it was too easy to get news without having to visit websites or read adverts... Today though, many still use their RSS readers to keep up with numerous website news and blog updates as RSS is still very much out there.
See https://www.androidpolice.com/google-reader-chrome-94-official-rss-feeds/
Add your favorite website RSS feeds to TICKR, and the tool will show the latest headlines scrolling in a thin, semi-transparent window similar to those available on news TV channels. Hovering the mouse over the ticker pauses the scrolling, while pointing the mouse to a headline shows an excerpt of the article in a tooltip. Left-click the headline in TICKR to open it in your web browser.
See https://www.linuxuprising.com/2021/08/add-news-ticker-to-your-desktop-with.html
There is a wealth of information on the web that you probably want to keep up to date with; from news to how-tos, guides, tutorials, and more. Imagine having to visit, on a daily basis, all your favorite blogs or websites – it’s a bit of a challenge, especially if you have a tight schedule. This is where RSS comes into play.
RSS (Rich Site Summary or also Really Simple Syndication) is a popular and standardized web format used to deliver regularly changing content on the web. It is employed by blogs, news-related sites as well as other sites to deliver their content as an RSS Feed to Internet users interested in it.
RSS feeds enable you to see when blogs or websites have added new content so you can get the latest headlines, videos, and images within a single interface, immediately after being published, without necessarily visiting the news sources (you have taken the feeds from).
To subscribe to a feed, simply go to your favorite blog or site, copy the RSS URL and paste it into your RSS feed reader: do this for sites you visit frequently.
Some of these are desktop installable applications and some are self-hostable that you access with your browser or a mobile app. A few will also install on Windows and macOS. My own blog also contains an RSS feed, which I often use to replicate my posts elsewhere.
See https://www.tecmint.com/best-rss-feed-readers-for-linux/
Left: Chrome's new "Follow" button. Right: The RSS feed, which looks just like Google discover. (credit: Google)
Despite killing Google Reader in 2013, Google keeps flirting with the idea of helping users discover news. The algorithm-powered " Google Discover " and Google News feeds send heaps of traffic to websites based on users' search histories, but what if people could just tell Google what websites they like? The company's new Chromium blog post details how Google is "experimenting" with a new RSS-powered "Follow" button in Chrome.
"We’re exploring how to simplify the experience of getting the latest and greatest from your favorite sites directly in Chrome, building on the open RSS web standard," Google's post says. "Our vision is to help people build a direct connection with their favorite publishers and creators on the web." A "follow" button will appear in the Chrome for Android menu when the feature is enabled.
Chrome for Android's "new tab" page has had a Discover feed for a while. Now, when a user presses the "follow" button, a new "Following" tab will appear on the new tab page. So you'll get algorithm suggestions on the "For You" tab and a "Following" tab full of your manually added blog posts. The interface of the RSS feed looks just like the Google Discover feed, with big thumbnails, a title, and no article text. For now, the feature is only on Android and will appear on the Chrome Canary (nightly) builds in "the coming weeks."
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