Google Buzz from Top Services Google Killed Off

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The magic sauce is the users. I liked Google +, but if none of my friends use it, I wonā€™t, so then none of their friends use it, and thatā€™s the fatal flaw. Iā€™ve kind of started to hate facebook, but itā€™s where my friends are, so Iā€™m stuck.

Tasks was clunky from the beginning and only available on a desktop, so Iā€™m really happy with reminders replacing it (even if not officially), but agree it needs a standalone app in addition to being integrated with calendar, inbox, and keep.

Aww, no NewsBlur love? In Google Readerā€™s aftermath, it was the one that I felt came the closest to what I loved about Google Reader. Even though itā€™s exclusively a paid service, itā€™s totally worth it.

I tried NewsBlur on and off for a couple years after Reader went away, always on the insistence of others, and always hated its slow, overloaded interface compared to Old Reader, Feedly, and InoReader. (I also hated Inoā€™s interface until a couple years ago.) It was a slog to get through, unintuitive in parts (still viscerally hate memories of that damn little gray arrow that signified which article was ā€œreadā€), social never seemed to work consistently, filtering/mute/block features were slow to come by, and I got less from paying for it than its competitors.

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