{"id":36171,"date":"2013-03-16T14:30:45","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T13:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.parokeets.com\/?p=36171"},"modified":"2025-11-13T10:24:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T09:24:01","slug":"google-reader-alternatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.parokeets.com\/en\/2013\/03\/google-reader-alternatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Reader alternatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Few days ago Google announced that <a title=\"Google Reader\" href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2013\/03\/a-second-spring-of-cleaning.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Reader is retiring<\/a> as of 1st of July 2013. As this is one of the more popular readers, it caused mass exodus from Google to other services.<\/p>\n<p>In beauty blogger community one important question popped out &#8211; how will this effect <strong>GFC<\/strong> (Google Friend Connect). As far as I know, there is no official word yet and you would expect it to be if GFC is also closing down. I think you are probably safe &#8211; at least until the next cleaning time. <!-- :silly: --><\/p>\n<p>I wrote about alternative ways to follow us (with photo guides) when Google shut down GFC for non-Blogger blogs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So this time here is short list of the alternatives (click on the name of the service to visit it):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bloglovin&#8217;<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Parokeets blog on Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/parokeets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Parokeets blog on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Parokeets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Parokeets blog on Google+\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/112289219631647975989\/posts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google+<\/a><\/li>\n<li>NetworkedBlogs<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.parokeets.com\/en\/feed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">other RSS readers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I transfered my feed today on Bloglovin&#8217;. If that doesn&#8217;t work well, I&#8217;ll try out Feedly. <!-- :angel: --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which service did you pick as Google Reader replacement?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few days ago Google announced that Google Reader is retiring as of 1st of July 2013. As this is one of the more popular readers, it caused mass exodus from Google to other services. In beauty blogger community one important question popped out &#8211; how will this effect GFC (Google Friend Connect). As far as &#8230; <a title=\"Google Reader alternatives\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.parokeets.com\/en\/2013\/03\/google-reader-alternatives\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Google Reader alternatives\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":36187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1469],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Google Reader alternatives<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.parokeets.com\/en\/2013\/03\/google-reader-alternatives\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Google Reader alternatives\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Few days ago Google announced that Google Reader is retiring as of 1st of July 2013. 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