What Google Reader’s Shutdown Teaches Us About Web Apps

You can’t go anywhere on the web without hearing about Google Reader’s shutdown. There are a number of lessons to be learned, but “never use any Google product ever again” isn’t the right lesson to draw.

Web apps and connected services are different from other apps. You can still use old desktop applications long after the companies go out of business, but once a company decides to pull the plug on a web app, it’s over.

by Chris Hoffman via How-To Geek