5大冤死的热门科技产品

谷歌Reader

    谷歌推出Reader的那个年代，把博客文章和新闻报道聚合到一处还是个挑战。而Reader与其各大对手一样，通过采用RSS技术，也即“真正简易聚合”（Really Simple Syndication），让用户可以自行创建自动聚合的内容，从而解决了这个难题。人们——尤其是硅谷的专业人士——很喜欢它，至少在社交媒体出现之前是这样。谷歌在宣布扼杀Reader的计划时给出的解释是，这款应用已经逐年减少，因此公司希望更专注于少数产品上。忠实用户出离愤怒。他们发布了大量帖子，呼吁谷歌重新考虑这个决定，或者把源代码捐给开源社区，由社区来运营这一服务。这个抗议的浪潮是否能让谷歌保留这项业务？等到它计划终止运行的那一天，7月1日，答案自然会揭晓。（财富中文网）

    译者：清远

Google Reader

    Google introduced Reader in another era, when getting blog posts and news articles in one place was a challenge. Reader, like its competitors, solved the problem by letting users create an automatic feed of what they wanted by using RSS technology, or Really Simple Syndication. People -- particularly Silicon Valley insiders -- loved it, at least until social media came along. In announcing its plan to kill Reader, Google explained that its use had declined over the years and that it wanted to focus on fewer products. Loyal users were outraged. In online postings, they called on Google to reconsider the decision or to donate the code to the open source community, which could then operate the service instead. Whether the outcry will be enough to get Google to stay the execution, scheduled for July 1, remains to be seen.