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Google Chris Wetherell posted about the birth of Google Reader

At Google one day, like every day, I was really busy.

Turns out that with Jason Shellen that wasn’t really much of a deterrent. “Why don’t you make an Atom parser in Javascript?”, he asked.

Which, for the non-geeks, is his asking me to make something that turns something into something else which could be used to represent data that was basically about cat photos.

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