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GMail Getting RSS Aggregation Feature?
pramodbiligiri writes "Some blogs are saying that a few GMail users can see a "Web Clips" part at the top of their inbox, where you can subscribe to RSS feeds and view them.
Evan Williams, formerly of Blogger.com has a screenshot
More on this at Gmail Adding Feed Reading and Google inches closer to RSS"
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I haven't been able to consistantly get into Gmail the past couple days... keep getting server errors. How about fixing current problems before adding new features?
(yes, I know, probably not the same people working on new features as on stability, etc... I'm just saying..)
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I saw an RSS feed autodiscovered on my Gmail acct a while ago... maybe even as much as a couple months ago. Tried to subscribe but it wouldn't parse. Maybe that was a sign of the things to come.
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
So, can they put up RSS feeds for Google News now?
Who spends this much time on the webmail? If you're in your email long enough to read that, you probably are using an E-mail client and downloading using POP3.
There is nothing more powerful than offering exclusive services to those at the top of the blogosphere and watching the news, and the hype, trickle down to other sites. This builds up anticipation for the service, and when they deliver it is an epiphany.
It's not only that Gmail's services are better. It knows how to market them online.
Google stories everyday on slashdot, gmail RSS'ing those stories onto google...I bet google news has them too!
It's the end of independant technology news as we know it.
I mean, think about it - with Google already supporting RSS feeds for mail messages, now we'll actually be able to get our GMail mail through web clips. Imagine - being able to get Google Mail through Google Mail - Revolutionary!
Er, wait a minute...
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While I love GMail's functionality, I think it could probably use a UI overhaul if they are going to start adding content blocks or make GMail a portal of any sort.
That said, how cool would it be to have a full AJAX client in Gmail that returned search results from the web/images/video, maintained my open inbox, let me read RSS, watch video clips, IM or IRC... a man can dream...
Excuse my speling.
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Google: "my ass" http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie =UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2005-07,GGLD:en&q=my+ass
And GMail starts as an email portal. Be afraid.
...I don't have it on my account yet, but when I do, I'll post all the details on my GmailTips.com site.
This will be very nice addition. I just hope that Gmail doesn't become bogged down with extras. My wish is that all of these kinds of extras be togglable through Settings...
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Google and Slashdot really are merging!
More carp. Slashdot supported Google a long time ago, before it was even a relevant/functional search option... only a budding infrastructure.... only a fresh idea. I keep seeing the bashing of Google posts on Slashdot and I have to wonder why? Why do you care if Slashdot covers the most relevant search engine in the world? Isn't anything Google does NEWS FOR NERDS, STUFF THAT MATTERS?
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
Yeah this guy is right. You can turn any email account to be RSS compliant without needing gmail. It shouldn't be google this, google that and google everthing.
This is 21st Google article in this month and third today. What is it with Google that every sigle thing they do has to be reported on slashdot?
I'm not the only one with complains about what is put on the front page. How about moderation system to the articles on fron page/in sections. If a article is moderated enough down it will drop from the front page to the section and if it is still moderated it might drop out of the system all together. Articles could also rise from the section to the front page.
This would solve Roland Piquepaille, Google, and Dupes in a single strike.
I really don't understand why people are cribbing about /.'s coverage of Google. Google *is* one of the fastest innovating companies out there, coupled with being one whose products are widely used. They are a revolutionary company in many respects.
:-P ). I *do* want to hear about uber-cool features such as Suggest (albeit not really useful, it's still fascinating for any web hacker).
I *do* want to hear about the first email service to give me "unlimited" storage. I *do* want to hear about satellite images on maps (I need the landmarks. I'm horrible with directions
Google, to me, is a company that is a break from the norm - both technologically and business-wise. It's refreshing and intruiging. And I'd like hear from someone who can argue (rationally) against the fact that they have had a huge impact on the WWW.
I can't help but feel sorry for the 3 people in this country who still don't have a Gmail account. If only there were some other way for them to get news on the web...
Anything is possible given sufficient time and money.
I think you meant "TMI" and not "TM".
Dude, you are one sick puppy.
There are 3 people left on earth who don't have a Gmail account?! Time to put those invites back on ebay.
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Someday the term 'Internet access' will be replaced with 'Google access'.
Google is the idea Pinky and The Brain should have had.
Taco's going to cash in. Again.
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Inaccuracy from a single online news source is OK, when you cross-reference it with other sources. The Web offers a cheap, workable way to do this that print/broadcast media don't: aggregation.
Especially with so much news (in print/broadcast as well as bits/interactive) produced by parallel distribution workflows, headlines, stories, angles and agendas all take a resonance that's unnerving across multiple newsracks, but manageable in an RSS aggregator. See not only the contrasts in reporting/story, but the uncomfortably synthetic similarities of "manufactured news" that agrees too much, especially across "independent" sources.
Wall Street has used these techniques (and techs) for years. Multiple data sources are compared/contrasted for "data quality assurance". Long after the "single point of failure" is left behind, more textured info, weighted perspectives, prediction/accuracy performance grades and simply emergent patterns in the grapevine all add to the usability of the data, with enveloping context environements abounding.
...Of course, if you still just believe everything you read, at least you'll be too confused by the diversity to do anything that gets in the way of the rest of us clever enough to put the picture together.
Sure, RSS is nice, but how about adding in something basic like distribution lists so I don't have put all the contacts in for each email list I send out?
Bells and whistles are nice but how about adding IMAP compatibility and more configurable filtering (Sieve scripts perhaps?).
I can aggregate everyone's email now and read it as news? Sure is more interesting than just mine.
What keeps me going is my inertia.
So many articles about Google in such a short time makes suspicious! Does /. or CmdrTaco hold any Google shares?
(The answer "Who doesn't?!" doesn't count)
well the world press is doing the same, kissing various parts of the newly defined google virtual body. this is one other reason why the GOOG shares stay up like this.
A fully developed RSS reader is not something google recently purchased. I'd wonder if they will go on releasing a crappy orkut-like dead-end app, or purchase some real RSS aggregator
cut this signatures madness. stop reading them now!
I often wonder to myself if I were to figure out a way to make love to google, would Slashdot cover it..
Everyone no doubt has set up an elaborate shell script to automatically comment on google stories, bemoaning the amount of news about google on slashdot.
Don't see any else whinging about the amount of Linux coverage, or OSS coverage.
Everyone's looking for the new "big company" to make snarky comments about.
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Go ahead mod me offtopic/flamebit/troll. But before that check how many google stories are running on front page.
Let me know when they provide RSS feeds for tracking shipments. The thing they just added for searching for tracking numbers is a step in the right direction, though.
Sick of people knocking on Gentoo's greatness in completely unrelated
(And IMHO, it's dancing periously close to being vaporware!)
Google web search, desktop search, maps, images, videos, usenet, shopping, mail, RSS, whatever etc etc...
Maybe we should all save ourselves some time and only take note of what Google ISN'T doing.
Yahoo has been doing amazing stuff with a lot of their sites. My Yahoo Search, Groups, Yahoo 360, Yahoo news just got a makeover. They've had RSS on My Yahoo for a long time now.
Seriously, why is Slashdot focused only on Google when Yahoo is also doing all of these great things to their site? Is it just Google stardom that's gotten to you guys?
I have no use for this unless they build a full fledged reader instead of a single useless line. I hate tickers and this is even less useful than a ticker.
It is true, and i absolutely love the rss feed in my bookmarks for firefox.
GMail doesn't allow you to receive ZIP, RAR attachments. There is no option to configure this.
So, GMail is USELESS to most developers.
How hard can it be to add this option (somewhere in settings)?
Google doesn't add it. So, in my book Google is also evil. They don't care about a large part of the customers which made GMail very popular (bloggers, developers). They just want to make money from the ads they put in GMail.
That's a big difference. You can send zips and rars as long as there's no executable code in them. I think that's pretty reasonable.
did anyone look at the screenshot? this has nothing to do with RSS....it has to do with google's new video distribution service.
So what, exactly, has Google done or appeared to do or might be planning to do that takes said freedom away from you? I mean, if you don't want them to store your data, then don't put your data there. You don't *have* to use Google's services.
I guess I'm just not entirely sure what you're really complaining about here.
So, Google is scary because they sat down, wrote software that let them get a whole bunch of information, and then wrote a bunch of software to provide that information to other people in various ways/means/formats.
I have only one word, and that word is: what-the-fuck? Okay, so yeah, they've got a lot of data. So what? Why is that scary *at all*?
Most of what they do is as an aggregation source. They get data from all sorts of places, sort it, collate it, apply various transformations and such to it, and then present it in useful formats. They are not a content producer, they are a content aggregator. They're probably the *best* content aggregator out there, and certainly they're the largest. But I still fail to understand why having a lot of information and the power to process that information is potentially "bad" in any way.
What, exactly, could Google do that is so god-awful scary? I'm asking for speculation here, because while it's one thing to be paranoid, it's another to be paranoid with a just reason. I don't see any just reason here, because I don't see that they have any world-dominating possibilities, myself. Yes, yes, information is power, but that's a bullshit throwaway line... *Control* of information is power, and Google doesn't really control shit in that respect. They aggregate information, they don't produce it.
They certainly help me find out about Google's new whiz-bang gadgetry. Because hey, they produce some cool stuff that I use a lot. So yeah, I'd say that these articles are quite helpful.
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this has been up for a while now. the only time there's anything in the feed is when you have new mail.
i mozdex'd my name and came up w/5 results and w/google i came up w/255,000
Parent is talking about a different feature, the Atom feed GMail provides of e-mails.
Actually, Google comes up with "about 706,000" results for Anonymous Coward...
You see, that's the beauty of the choices we have. For you, a standalone email client is best. For me, a Web-based client that is always accessible wherever I have Web access is more desirable.
I would ccertainly love to always have access to a full-featured, all-in-one email client, but with Gmail, I can manage my email at home, work, in a training class, at my friend's house, etc. I'm not tied down to a single installation. Yes, I could put definitely Portable Thunderbird on a USB Memory thingy (in fact, I have), but unfortunatly, it doesn't cut it at work due to firewall issues. Yes, I could MAKE it work at work, but it's just plain easier to log onto my Gmail account.
But not everyone has the need to have email access from anywhere, so in those cases, a standalone setup is more appropriate.
My mom always said, "Jim, you're 1 in a million." Given the current population, there are 7000 of me. God help us all!
There is a shell extension (for Windows) to integrate your gmail account as a drive. http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm
Webmail provides a single, central location for all your email. It looks the same if you connect from home, it looks the same if you connect from work, it looks the same if you connect from your friends house.
With pop3, I have one pile of of messages at home, a second pile at work. The messages are out of sync. You can leave the downloaded messages on the server, but there is no way to keep your Sent messages in sync. If I organize my mail folders at home, I need to duplicate this effort at work.
This situation might get resolved with IMAP, but IMAP has it's own problems.
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I'd like to use Gmail as my mail client, but I don't want to use my @gmail.com email address.
I have my own domains, with my own email addresses. I can bring them with me if I chose a different email provider.
I forward the mail from the email address to my Yahoo account. Yahoo allows me to set the "From:" line to any email address that I control.
Gmail does not offer me the option of sending email any of my other email domains.
With Gmail, I can put my address in the 'Reply-To:' line, but many people & mail clients ignore that line. And having a "From:" line an a "Reply-To:" line looks like crap.
94% of Repubs and 21% of Dems voted to renew the Patriot Act
I use Kmail (via Kontact) to access my company's IMAP server and my home IMAP server. It autocompletes addresses from my company's LDAP server. It tells me when the person I just got an email from is online with Jabber or AIM. It supports GPG. When I'm on the road, I can use Squirrelmail to access the same accounts and the same address books.
Gmail is pretty nice for people who don't have their own servers. For people who do, though, is there any compelling reason to switch?
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
They are under no real obligation to keep it running and EVERYONE is using it as a stable permanent system.
What if we all woke up tomorrow to find out that "when it went live" they decided to clear out all the email addresses and emails. Pure and utter pandemonium would ensue.
It's about time that Google got into the whole RSS arena. Yahoo and MSN have had support for RSS for a while now, Yahoo with it's rss support for news, MSN with it's rss support for search results. Isn't it about time that Google also done the same? I've been anxious to hear of any news of google providing RSS feeds for it's news service.
- Teja
i just liked the idea of a variety of sources in one feed.
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http://www.petitiononline.com/google45/petition.ht ml/
This petition was created to ask Google to offer services for a network file storage system or other similar internet/network share. Google has made great headway with its very successful multi-gigabyte google email service
http://www.jroller.com/page/berlinbrown/20050415#r equest_for_google_network_file/
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Google are anal probing now?
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I have gmail set up as a live bookmark in firefox. It would really be nice if, when I cliked a subject, it went right to that email.
Now all they have to do is add newsgroup access and they'd have a Thunderbird killer. I'm sure there's a bunch of folks out there that would rather do all this stuff using a web interface as opposed to a stand-alone application.
Interesting idea, but I don't know if I'd trust google that much with my files.
I know they have that whole 'do no evil' thing going, but I really couldn't bring myself to hand over my files to them. At least with gmail I can still use GPG to keep my secrets. If I really needed on-line storage that badly then I would be prepared to pay a hosting service for the space and a water-tight contract.
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