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Google Reader is still defunct, but its spirit lives on in a “follow button” for Chrome that Google first started experimenting with in May. The RSS tracking feature was limited to the experimental Canary versions of Chrome on Android, but today the company has started enabling it on stable versions of the browser, according to Adrienne Porter Felt, a director of engineering on Chrome. You can follow a site through the browser’s three-dot menu to subscribe to its RSS feed and have… Source link

Yahoo Answers had a good 16-year run. The Internet is a wonderful tool, isn’t it? Back in the day, you couldn’t just search something on the world wide web. Instead, you had to do all of your research at the actual library referencing actual books and actual encyclopedias. Gosh, I remember some of my assignments coming with a “three-book reference minimum.” We had to cite our sources using the title, author, publish date, etc. In other words, you couldn’t fake doing the research. In many ways,… Source link

Yahoo Group has already stopped allowing the creation of new groups on the platform. The service will be disabled completely on December 15. Yahoo Groups will shut down in December 2020. (Picture: Reuters) HIGHLIGHTS Yahoo Groups will become defunct in December 2020. Yahoo Groups noted that the service has seen a steady decline in usage over the last several years. Yahoo Groups was among the earliest social media services that gave virtual group interaction service. Yahoo Groups, the almost… Source link