Click the Choose Services tab, and then find Reader in the alphabetical list. Google Takeout, and re-enter your password if prompted. If you use an app like NetNewsWire, you can use its Export OPML options. If you haven’t exported them yet, do so before July 1 rolls around. But listen-and this is important- the time to export your Google Reader subscriptions is now. Many services can import your Google Reader subscriptions. Google may still offer the option to export your data after July 1, but there are no guarantees. "When you have got projects such as Google Glass and Driver-less cars on the horizon, it is time to close out the unnecessary stuff and place more attention on the future.Export your Google Reader data now, before July 1. Trimming this piece of "flab" from the Google universe frees up time and resources so the company can work on things more people actually care about. Here's the bottom line, says Balaji Viswanathan at Quora: "Google Reader doesn't fit in the core objective of Google," and hasn't for a long time. As ideas and technologies shift and evolve - where are we now? Web 3.0? - our usage methods and our behaviors shift too." "And maybe that's how things ought to be now.
These days, "RSS is, effectively, part of the internet plumbing," working in the background to connect sites with one another and with Facebook, Twitter, and other services. Google Reader may be dead, but RSS isn't, says Neville Hobson at his blog. In the end, this will certainly make me a lot less tied to Google's services, which is probably a good thing, but probably not the sort of thing Google is hoping its users will be doing. I'm now planning to do a more serious personal audit of services I use and how reliant I am on a single provider, and start making sure I have working alternatives in place and ready to go. Now, I don't think any of those are going away any time soon, but not too long ago (um, yesterday, according to some.) you could have said the same exact thing about Reader.
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