So Google Reader is finally being killed off. The RSS reader that spurred many clones and provided a way for you to follow any number of your favourite blogs easily is to close down this summer.

With very few updates to the service in the last couple of years it is hardly surprising. It might be a bad day for Google Reader fans but there's an opportunity here for someone to earn themselves a nice fortune.

The space left my Google Reader now means that there's a place for a well designed cross platform RSS Reader.
And I'm willing to pay for it.

Over the next few days I'm going to be looking for an alternative to Google Reader. It's sad to see the service go but nothing is forever. The one good thing from this is that Google Reader already provides a way for you to export your feeds. Shouldn't be too difficult to get up and running on something else soon.