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NewsBlur is a personal news reader that brings people together to talk about the world. A new sound of an old instrument.
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This page has announcements of new features, major fixed bugs, and calls for participation in development servers hosting new beta features.
Overview
Location
United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge
Employees
11-50
Investors 1
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Mentions in press and media 24
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| Mar 15, 2018 | Warning for RSS fans -- Digg Reader is closing in under two weeks | For some people RSS is already a dead technology, and over the last few years numerous RSS readers -- including Google Reader -- shut up shop. But for others, accessing newsfeeds is an essential way to keep up to date with what's going on. ... |
| Jun 30, 2013 | Google Reader goes away tomorrow. Here’s what you need to do now | You can’t say you haven’t been warned: Google announced in March that it would be shutting down Google Reader, its popular RSS newsfeed reader, on July 1. That’s tomorrrow, and you won’t be able to access the site after that. If you’re a Go... |
| Jun 30, 2013 | Google Reader goes away tomorrow. Here’s what you need to do now | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! You can’t say you haven’t been warned: Google ann... |
| Jun 24, 2013 | “Facebook Reader” Is Real, But It’s Not RSS Or A Google Reader Wannabe | Facebook is working on a fresh way to read news, a source tells TechCrunch. It’s not based on RSS, and Facebook isn’t rushing the launch of a product that could compete with Flipboard. That’s because news reading is a high-stakes, long-term... |
| Jun 13, 2013 | API Code Could Point To Facebook Building An RSS Reader | Move over Reeder, Feedly, Digg, NewsBlur, Feedbin and the rest of the RSS players who hope to pick up some new users with the impending demise of Google Reader. Facebook may also be looking to wade into the game. Asked whether Facebook is p... |
| Jun 3, 2013 | Reeder, gReader & Other Popular Feed Reading Apps Partner With Feedly Ahead Of Google Reader Shutdown | In less than a month, Google Reader will shut down for good, according to the countdown timer on Digg.com, a company now in the process of building a replacement. For end users, the loss is one of a simple, fast and powerful front-end for b... |
| Mar 22, 2013 | NewsBlur (YC S12) scales on a shoestring, handles a huge influx of users post-Google-Reader-pocalypse | One of the more interesting stories to emerge from the demise of Google Reader is that of NewsBlur, a previously small, but very nice, open source alternative RSS reader. NewsBlur is a one-man operation that was humming along quite nicely,... |
| Mar 22, 2013 | Google Reader Who? Feedly Became Top News App On iPhone, iPad & Android This Week; New App Now Awaiting Approval | Where are the users headed following news of Google Reader’s shutdown? To Feedly, it seems. We already heard the company announce it had passed half a million new users, but more importantly, Feedly is now winning on mobile, too. According ... |
| Mar 21, 2013 | Google shutting down Reader is great news | I’m a big fan of Google Reader. I don’t just access it every day, I access it, probably on average, every couple of hours or so (and still do, despite my switch to Microsoft). I have hundreds of feeds in there, and thousands of stories star... |
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FAQ about NewsBlur
What has the press written about NewsBlur?
Parsers VC has collected 24 articles mentioning NewsBlur, among them “Warning for RSS fans -- Digg Reader is closing in under two weeks” (Mar 15, 2018) and “Google Reader goes away tomorrow. Here’s what you need to do now” (Jun 30, 2013).
Is NewsBlur still active?
Yes, NewsBlur is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Apr 8, 2024.