strypey, "But the real tragedy of Reader was that it had all the signs of being something big, and Google just couldn’t see it. Desperate to play catch-up to Facebook and Twitter, the company shut down one of its most prescient projects; you can see in Reader shades of everything from Twitter to the newsletter boom to the rising social web."
#DavidPierce, 2023
https://www.theverge.com/23778253/google-reader-death-2013-rss-social