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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.