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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. can't get in by syrinx · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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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    Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
  2. Re:so google news then? by -O.ster_66 · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    dont get your hopes up - i asked for this two years ago. and again a year ago. they actually "remembered" that i had requested it a year previous.

    oh well. maybe some day.

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    "You get all the fun of sitting still, being quiet, writing down numbers, paying attention...science has it all."
  3. precision * diversity = accuracy by klipsch_gmx · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.

  4. Re:Simple piece of code by XMyth · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Actually that's not the normal context of "FIRST POST".

    Clearly, you ARE new here.