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GMail Getting RSS Aggregation Feature?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-isn't-that-spiffy dept.

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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  1. Two lines of code will turn any email to RSS by Flywheels+of+Fire · · Score: 5, Informative
    Why do you need gmail when the following simple piece code can do it?
    $rss_feed = file_get_contents('http://example1.com/feed.rss');
    mail('...@example2.com', 'RSS Feed from Example1.com', $rss_feed,
    'Content-Type: application/rss+xml');

    RSS On Slashdot: Iran captures three CIA agents

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    Iran captures three CIA agents
  2. Yup by mfh · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

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    1. Re:Yup by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative


      That's the RSS feed for your Gmail inbox. That's not what this is referring to, which is an RSS reader in Gmail.

      The URL for your gmail feed is:

      https://gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom

      Presumably it uses the persistant Gmail cookie to determine your account information.

    2. Re:Yup by aurumaeus · · Score: 2, Informative

      The RSS feed on Google has worked for a while. It just requires authentication, which it seems FIrefox doesn't handle well. It works perfectly on Safari. One more reason to get a Mac. :)

  3. It's coming... by jbarr · · Score: 2, Informative

    ...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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  4. no problem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative
    Gmail does allow sending and receiving of rar and zip attachments. You just can't send or receive zipped or rar'd executable code.

    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.

  5. nothing to do with RSS by pezzonovante1 · · Score: 1, Informative

    did anyone look at the screenshot? this has nothing to do with RSS....it has to do with google's new video distribution service.