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Chris Wetherell
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Chris Wetherell writes Massless, a personal blog at massless.org about programming and culture. Since 2008, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “From the Google Reader author: dreams, discernment, and Google Reader”. The last post was in 2011, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Chris Wetherell's blog for his firsthand accounts of Google Reader's origins and development, and his views on Google moonshot projects. The comments mostly cite or point to these posts as background.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A weblog by Chris Wetherell since October 2000.
Most-linked posts?
- From the Google Reader author: dreams, discernment, and Google Reader4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2011-11-03
What Hacker News says?
> Google's own canonical example of a moonshot is Android Is it? > By that definition, Orkut and Reader qualify just fine If everything is a moonshot, nothing is, etc. AFAIK both projects were just 20% time projects scaled up to three or four people[1]. A "moonshot" is obviously a wishy-washy term, but opportunity for success doesn't seem to be sufficient to call something that. [1] http://massless.org/?archive=2007…
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on “G is for Google”Submitted Pegs: jQuery based differential scrolling demo as a story · 8 points
HN discussionRe: costs, don’t forget that Google was already saving all of that content for search - they still use feeds to get content updates. On the topic of monetization, this was covered in some of the articles at the time. This isn’t the best one but: https://gigaom.com/2013/03/13/chris-wetherll-google-reader/ “ Wetherell agreed. “The reader market never went past the experimental phase and none was iterating on the busin…
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on “Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing business focus”Submitted Leaving Google as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHere a link to Mr Avocado? He the former engineer who created Google reader project in the first place.This is Just a suggestion from a user. Maybe getting him on board would help a lot in your project? http://www.massless.org/?area=Projects
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on “Baby steps toward replacing Google Reader”Submitted From the Google Reader author: dreams, discernment, and Google Reader as a story · 2 points
HN discussionDo you find that being a dick generally makes you more persuasive? Because it isn't working for me here. Google Reader was well known within Google as an orphan project for a long time. Years before they shut it I was chatting with some Googler and Reader game up. He mentioned how impressive it was that it was still alive given how starved for resources it had been. I think he said that it was just one guy. And here…
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on “Google Reader announced its shutdown exactly a year ago”Submitted Google Reader's founder on Google Reader as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSee also Part 2 ( http://www.massless.org/?archive=2007/05/about-google-reader... )
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on “About Google Reader's Birth: Part 1.”Submitted About Google Reader's Birth: Part 1. as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dreams, discernment, and Google Reader (2011) as a story · 1 points
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