Does anyone still use RSS? I think social networks have really killed RSS and the only way you get people to somewhat subscribe is through Google Communities.
Their blog post indicates they're trying to go beyond that, to include social media content:
"We want to experiment with and add value to the sources of information that are increasingly important, but difficult to surface and organize in most reader applications — like Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Reddit, LinkedIn, or Hacker News. We likely won’t get everything we want into v1, but we believe it’s worth exploring."
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