iGoogle is now dead. What will Google kill next?

iGoogle was killed yesterday. Similar to the lame portals that come with your Yahoo! account or Microsoft account (My Yahoo or My MSN), reliant on widgets using RSS feeds, iGoogle was your personal dashboard with your Google account. Did you see that dirty word there? "RSS feed." Google Reader was killed earlier this year because they just couldn't make enough money through ads from their users. Ditto for iGoogle. Well, what's next? I have a service in mind.

Feedburner is going to die in the next couple of years. Google bought them in 2006 to complement their in-house feedproxy service. But the last time Feedburner was tweaked was in 2010, when they added their own shortening service to make feeds post to Twitter. No other social networks were added, and their own developer blog was shut down in July 2012. It's pretty much a zombie service, much like Reader was and iGoogle.

And, as a redirect service for an RSS feed, they have become unreliable. Sometimes feeds would not update for several hours. The reporting and monitoring services that come with Feedburner are nice, but there is neglect and no active development going on there now. Since Feedburner doesn't really have a public interface like Reader or iGoogle, it doesn't need that much administration, but its quality of service has declined. I would advise moving on to another RSS monitoring and reporting service sooner than later.