Google's decision to shut down Reader's content-sharing features, announced last week, has led some users to complain in discussion forums and blog posts, and even set up a petition. Google is also giving Blogger publishers the option of replacing their Blogger user profile with their Google+ profile, but doing so, again, requires that publishers identify on Blogger using their Google+ real name. If they do, they have to integrate it with their Picasa account, and replace their Picasa Web name with their Google+ identity. Reader becomes the latest Google application whose functionality has been changed - either mandatorily or optionally - by Google+, which the company is in the process of integrating with many other Google sites and applications.įor example, users of the Picasa photo service can continue using a pseudonym as long as they don't set up a Google+ account. Google has said that it will allow pseudonyms on Google+ at some point, but hasn't said when nor how. If they have been sharing on Reader using a pseudonym, they'll now have to switch to using their real name, which is required for a Google+ account. Google Reader users who want to continue sharing RSS feed content with others thus need to set up a membership in Google+, the company's new social networking site.
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With its upgrade of Google Reader on Monday, Google has shut down the native social content-sharing features of the popular RSS feed manager and shifted the functionality in modified form to Google+.
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