关于Google关闭Google Reader

Xiaoming — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 21:17:17 +0000

每天都习惯性的打开Google Reader看些新闻什么的，那天打开时看到了弹窗“Google Reader将于2013年7月1日停止”服务。震惊+意外，如此好的产品居然说关就关了！我从2008年开始用GReader，已经五年了，除了QQ之外，很难想到还有别的什么产品能让我用这么久的。

自08年第一次用GReader到现在为止的统计

GReader的强大之处有很多，最值得提到的有下面几点：

所有订阅过的文章都有缓存，所以在GReader里面阅读不会受原始网站速度影响，只要你打开GReader快，那你打开所有的文章都一样快。
阅读之后文章缓存依然有效，以后也可以方便的查找，即使原始网站已经不存在。
使用HTTPS可以在兲朝无缝阅读任何资料，不需要怕墙。
异常便捷的快捷键，要是忘了的话，直接在键盘上按下“？”键，快捷键一目了然。
订阅任何的网站更新，即使网站没有输出RSS。（这个功能貌似早些时候已经移除）
其他RSS阅读器的基本功能就不用说了，肯定都有，而且更加简洁轻便。

最近很多评论文章都说Google已经不再是以前的Google了。不得不说，这次这一举动真的伤害到了非常多的谷粉，也让广大谷粉对Google的信任度下降了许多。就比如最近新出的Google Keep，说实话，我第一次看到这个东西的时候觉得这又是一个很不错的想法，很实用。但是我想到了他们关闭GReader，万一开始用GKeep后，很多信息当记录在此，哪天突然关闭了怎么办？这真的让我犹豫了一下，以前用Google的产品从来不会有任何的顾虑。其实当年Google+出来之后，把GReader中的Share/Like功能替换掉时已经遭很多人唾弃，但至少其他功能都依旧。现在可好，整个都要关了。Google，你真的伤到我了！

前两天切换到Feedly试用了一下，虽然也是一个挺不错的产品，但是哪能跟Google这样财大气粗，服务器没法比。大量GReader涌入之后，他们赶忙各种升级，但是依然无法让我感到满意。我自从用GReader以来，从来没让我等待过，都是打开即阅读，而Feedly目前还无法做到。不过，他们的态度是非常值得称赞的，迅速的响应用户需求，提供无缝迁移、增加投入、加快新功能开发、让用户投票推选想要的功能以及他们的效率都不得不让任何一个人赞许。因此，等GReader关闭的时候，我相信Feedly将会是我不二的选择，希望到时候你也会喜欢。

最后，虽然希望很渺茫，但还是希望Google能将Google Reader保留下来。

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The Use of Google Sites

Xiaoming — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:16:40 +0000

After years of development, Google Sites has become a powerful website platform like Microsoft SharePoint. It provides hundreds of templates which will make you very easy to build a site, no matter if it is for project management, intranet content management or the portal of your business. The integration of other Google products i.e. Calendar, YouTube, Documents and etc. gives you a fantastic experience on sharing information. I would like to summarise some impressive features that really attract me.

1. Features

1.1 Custom Domain

Google Sites supports web address mapping. If you are a Google Apps user, you probably would like to use your domain URLs for the sites which will make your sites more professional.

1.2 SEO

You cannot run a website effective without considering SEO. Most visits of a modern website are from search engines like Google, Bing etc. Certainly, folks at Google have considered about this, and they have given the Google Sites an ability to easily integrate other SEO products i.e. Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools. You just need to open your site’s configuration page and type in your profile ID or verification meta tag, that is it!

1.3 Script-based Automation

The Scripts enable you to add custom operations at any time. And you even do not need to leave your browser to edit the scripts.

1.4 Mobile friendly

We have been in a mobile internet world since years ago. Smart phones and tablets come to people’s daily life. So it is important to make your site friendly to mobile devices. This is an easy job by using Google Sites; it is done by ticking a check box.

1.5 More for you to investigate…

Post comments below for the features that you like. : p

2. Conclusion

In this post, I have shown four features that are really great to me. I personally think that Google Sites is totally enough for a small business. You do not have to know much about the programing, website development. What you need to do are only a couple of clicks.

If there is any friend who is interested with this, I would like to help you with pleasure. Contact me through here.

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