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New Google Homepage Features
SecularG writes "It seems that Google has added new features to it's Personalized Home. To edit the content of your personalized homepage you click 'Add Content' in the top right, and a list of options slide out from the left. You can add your own bookmarks, select from more news feeds, and add your own RSS news feeds." Of course since Slashdot is already available from their default list of technology sites, why would you need the ability to include an RSS feed?
Of course since Slashdot is already available from their default list of technology sites, why would you need the ability to include an RSS feed?
It takes less bandwidth to see a dupe headline with RSS than it does when one reloads the entire slashdot mainpage. [rimshot]
Trolling is a art,
yahoo.com. What a pointless and crowded web portal.
RSS eliminates the need for web portals entirely. You can just use the RSS functionality of Safari for a home page, or make a local page with the RSS feeds you want to see.
...right. Seems like someone doesn't know their left from their right.
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
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So they are just adding more of gmail's features too their homepage.
Go to the w3.org and put Slashdot.org through the validator.
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"It's" = "It is". The possessive is "its". Why is that so freaking difficult to grasp?
And not being a 14-year-old who just copied and compiled hello.c, I will use the appropriate "=" rather than the pompous but incorrect "=="...
Its not always Google that is the new hotness.
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Many other browsers work with Gmail's basic HTML view, including:
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Konqueror users are still SOL
It is at the 'top left' here.
He's talking about the computer 's right.
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Well, I played with it for five minutes and couldn't see much use. It wouldn't let me fine tune the news feed to suit my needs, or at least not in an obvious way, and didn't display the accompanying pictures from news stories.
For whatever reason it won't display the weather for my location (Hamilton ON). I don't particularly like the way it displays my g-mail info, and would like to change the arrangement and width of the blocks.
All in all this one actually looks like a beta - dull, uninspired, and not fully realized.
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I go to the weather section, I remove "Happy, TX" and add my zipcode and blam, it doesn't add my city and keeps "Happy, TX".
I go to the "news" section and increase the number of stories from 3 to 5 and, nope, it keeps 3.
I go add a "gmail" section and it does nothing?
Is this thing working at all? I can't seem to be able to save / configure anything.
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Has Slashdot been bought by Google? I'm serious. I don't read those Slashback articles. I've been noticing an average of about 3 Google themed articles a day and it seems like a lot, even controlling for dupes.
Maybe it goes backwards in the southern hemisphere...
I want to see you guys develop a new programming language and thwart Java's dominance. New desktop operating system.
Quit with the weeny web crap.
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I'd rather see today's news instead of last week's!
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I am sure there are many people like me to watch the slashdot/onion/etc. news source from that kind of homepage and completely forget the search job.
So, they released this feature some 2-3 months in advance ONLY TO ME??????
"... Of course since Slashdot is already available from their default list of technology sites, why would you need the ability to include an RSS feed? ..." .. Because replies like this one make Slashdot useless from time to time, and sometimes its fun to read what other sites like The Register and The BBC have to say ;).
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awesome, now i dont even have to search on google for my torrents if i can add the rss feeds!
too bad limewire doesnt have rss feeds for its files...
To bad when you add /. to your homepage the news links aren't updated real-time. This article doesn't even appear as of the time I'm writing this!
It's good to be reminded that Slashdot is a Technology, not a Lifestyle.
I am trying to get it to work on Firefox. It just won't add any content although it renders the already added content correctly! Ofcourse, it works great on IE.
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History repeating on slashdot too much!
adding rss feeds is new. Before you only had a few selections of the sites that google would let you add. Now you can add whatever you want, as long as there is an rss feed
I'm not complaining about Google's choices of feeds on the personalized homepage, because I actually like what they've offered -- but I can see how someone else might be offended at their editorial judgment. For example, (at least in the previous version, maybe also this one) the news choices were NYT, BBC, and other (generally) reputable sources. Now they also have Washington Post and others.
But I can see how someone might see this as liberal bias. "Where's my Washington Times, or Fox News feed??" And then some people will complain the other way -- "How come I can't get my Democracy Now feed on the home page??"
Maybe I just take the position that I like their choices and to those who complain about not having their own right-wing news feeds available, I say, go and create your own Google, losers. On the other hand, is it dangerous for one company to filter the available options so dramatically? You don't have to use their homepage, but when one provider is so dominant, you can't avoid issues like that...
ps. I believe the page now lets you input your own choice of xml feeds...
I'm inebriated you insensitive clod!
any rss feeds for bash someone can help me with?
its about time google added rss feeds. yahoo has had it for a while, so has metarss, newsburst and others. personally, i prefer live bookmarks in firefox. no ads and you dont have to go to any site first.
One feature I noticed on the new personalized Google site was that you can add your own RSS feed. Google should integrate this into their toolbar (like Yahoo's toolbar), in case some users aren't really sure how to find the RSS file associated with each website. Instead, the toolbar should recognize that an RSS feed is available and a button should appear stating something like "Add this RSS feed to Personal Google page".
I'm very happy to see that it runs great on Konqueror too.
Given GOOG stock is at all time high, my question is how does Google plan to make money with these free products?
Google can not really commercialize this portal with the fear of getting sued by the news media.
Or does it think that by giving away these freebies, it would attract more users to their search engine which seems to be the primary source of all their profits.
Can anyone justify the price for google stock?
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... if someone could write a firefox plugin to sync bookmarks to and from the google personal page. That way all my firefox instances will have a consistent set of bookmarks.
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Currently they have a plugin that syncs to an FTP server. This is cool but not everyone has a web-accessible ftp server handy. Everyone can, however, personalize their google account.
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You might have pointed out that the period goes inside quoted text, ie:
The possessive is "its."
but that's a common enough mistake.
Still, I'm glad you're not pompous.
Pot, kettle, black.
He's talking about the computer's right
Computers dont have any rights, you insensitive clod!
Peace, Love, Unity, Respect
No no, the confusion is between stage right and house right
Use Mozilla or Safari. It works fine.
Left where? In North Korea, commie?
Although this is another small step, it is important to realize that Google knows exactly what it is doing. Expanding its ability to offer a wide array of free services and utilities in an extremely user friendly way. This is why they are successful and why their stock price will continue to rise, despite its already booming level.
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Some people have community based wiki's that they might want to be updated on for recent changes.
My UID is prime is yours?
If you are running the customize google firefox extension these new features will work very poorly or not at all depending on what preferences you have set. Just an FYI for anyone having problems.
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-Xenocrates
I'm at work so I'm using IE, but sliding open that menu made IE have an error. (I'm using IE 6.0)
just today polished off my XP taskbar BBC news ticker. thought, hmm, with some more cunning coding i could use any feed and build a personalisable home page portal... f****g google
If you don't risk failure you don't risk success.
This would make perfect sense, since it now seems that Google OWNS Slashdot...
Doesn't it make you feel good to know that our freedoms are protected by politicans, lawyers and journalists.
I love it. Ask Yahoo on Google.
Wow, I should not post when knackered.
Anyone else having trouble staying logged in? It won't stay signed in for more than a few minutes, which basically makes the site worthless when you have to resign in everytime. I use IE, and I've added google.com to my Sites list for cookies, but no dice. Think it could have something to do with having the temp files option set to "Check for newer versions of pages: every visit to the page"? I don't want to have to change this setting, though. Any suggestions?
Of course since Slashdot is already available from their default list of technology sites, why would you need the ability to include an RSS feed?
Because we want to subscribe to a tech site that mentions the shuttle has successfully launched for the frist time in over 2 years? It's on the front page of the BBC, why not slashdot?
who approved this story? there is nothing new or interesting about this.
I tried to add my del.icio.us bookmarks rss feed.
didn't work for me. has anyone tried it?
Coming soon to the Slashdot Homepage...Obligatory Google stories every third submission!!! Oh wait...
Just use the weather for Ottawa, ON. It has the current temperature completely wrong, so it'll be just as useful in Hamilton as it is here. (And all but one of the numbers are in American units. Yay.)
It looks as if Google will let you add an RSS feed, but only if that feed is from a short list of feeds they've made available.
Is everyone else seeing this? Am I just making a mistake of some sort? I'd like to add my del.icio.us inbox RSS feeds.
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I was only taught Celcius in school, and was led to believe that Fahrenheit was left on the thermometers to appease the old-timers.
No, Celcius is left on the thermometers to appease the metric crowd. Fahrenheit is far more useful for actual human usage, as one degree F is just about exactly what a human being can perceive as a temperature change.
This is the 21st century, it's time to discard foolish beliefs, like "SI is actually useful in everyday life". It's not, it never will be. Give it up.
Why wasn't there a Slashdot headline when Yahoo did this long ago? More importantly, does Slashdot get kickbacks from Google for incessantly reporting on every little move Google makes?
Months, not weeks.
Who's going to enter URLs + bookmark names by hand?
They should just let me import my bookmarks from elsewhere. For example, from Simpy, using its REST API:
http://www.simpy.com/simpy/service/api/rest/
Simpy
Except that now you can stick listings from 500 news sites, 30 travel sites, 60 people's random blogs, and your favorite dozen shopping sites.
/duck
Of course, if you wanted that, you could just go straight to Yahoo!.
Did anyone notice the very nicely done page customisation?
Or are us nerds too jaded to recognise something nice and clean and pretty?
And did you notice the "Ask Yahoo!" section that can be added?
I for one think this is very nice. Now, instead of opening news.google.com, google.com, weatherchannel.com, and, of course, slashdot.org, i can see it all from one happy page!
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When I open Firefox, I always get the demo/sign-in screen rather than my actual personalized Google. As soon as I click "sign-in" it loads. Don't think it's a problem with cookies since if I set the default Google page as my home, I always see my login information in the upper-right-hand corner when I load Firefox. My home page is set to http://www.google.com/ig#, so I don't see what the problem is - had this problem since the personalized home page first launched, and I was hoping it would go away with the new revision.
Running Firefox 1.0.6 on Mac OS X 10.3.8
"how google's personalized homepage works". I am sure my tomorrow there should be a post of how somebody ripped apart the source and figured out how the drap and drop stuff works( which is pretty cool)
From what I can make out adding your own feeds requires a .rss or .xml extension and/or no query string.
Otherwise the OK button does nudda.
I can't get it to work in FF. Anybody get it to?
This just in! 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the population.
Click the slashdot article on goggle homepage, go to slashdot, click the google homepage article on slashdot go to google.....
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- Find out what my relatives are writing across the web (on forums for example) by using my surname (which is very uncommon)
- Monitor the inclusion (not rank) of my webpages on the first 10 results on MSN (The feed only returns the first 10 results).
It's nice that I can now add some feeds to my Google homepage, but what I would really like to see is a subscription service to show me whats new since I last signed in, wherever I am,.. rather than a news ticker. Then I wouldn't need to rely on Opera (which I only use at home) to remember what items from the feed i've already "marked as read"/deleted.Slashdot is already available from their default list of technology sites, why would you need the ability to include an RSS feed?
duh, so we can get the *real* technology news as well?
"Of course since Slashdot is already available from their default list of technology sites, why would you need the ability to include an RSS feed?"
For digg, of course.
I for one am disappointed in the "new features" because although the add content sidebar is flashy and all, I don't change my content much so it is a bit unnecessary. On the other hand, they made a click on an e-mail from your gmail a new window now instead of same window, which I don't like, a decision that could have been remedied if the "Inbox" link once reading an e-mail in the new window took you to your inbox in the same window, but no, they left it as making another new window.... so many new windows... and /. is a place where i need not keep complaining about windows, people have done enough of that for everyone.
The Slashdot editors need to print this out and tape it to their monitors: Bob the Angry Flower
MyWay.com already offers a much more customizable, ad-free homepage than Google which rivals Yahoo's. Unfortunately, only Yahoo has AFP news sections, plus a plethora of others that Google and MyWay do not have. The "most popular photos" are often amusing. If you haven't checked out Yahoo recently, do so, they made their UI pretty slick recently.
I am logged in, it even shows my gmail account name at the top. And as I mentioned before, it works in IE. So yes, I am logged in with my "google" account.
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Is it just me that it looks like Yahoo?
You can't get there from here.
I'll stick with My Yahoo! for my portable, use anywhere RSS reader. I like the ability (in Google Homepage) to rearange/reorder items by dragging and dropping...much faster than My Yahoo! But, they need to add multiple pages. On My Yahoo! I have a page for News, one for Sports, one for Tech, one for Gossip, one for Friends (friends blogs), etc. Each page has anywhere from 5-10 feeds for that category.
Google Homepage would be unusable with that many feeds all on one page.
Any wanna give MS's beta start.com a try? IMHO, it's much better in terms of usability, interface and aesthetics.
If they would add the new bookmarks suport to their toolbar, that would really be great. I continue to use the a9.com toolbar simply for the ability to share my bookmarks across multiple browsers and the ability to open a bookmark folder in a set of tabs.
No other toolbar I know of can do that...
Of course since Slashdot is already available from their default list of technology sites, why would you need the ability to include an RSS feed?
I just re-added Slashdot and will try them again. Last time I got temp banned for accessing their RSS feed too often. I guess that's what happens if you have Google Fusion as your start page. I hope Google has since updated their service so for each account accessing their page, Google don't *always* ask for the RSS feeds you subscribe to.
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Bah, I prefer yahoo better and think this google thing is fugly
Check out the Fun category, they have a "Ask Yahoo!" link.
Its a ton easier. I use it for searching, news, mail, games, as a yellow pages and looking up movie times. At this point, and prolly for the next 5 years, yahoo will still be king!
Should have been obvious ... it's the "CustomizeGoogle" extension;
http://www.customizegoogle.com/
Just disabling it seems to fix the problem. It's a great extension, but I'll have to do without it if I'm going to use it.
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I think its great, looks like it has an ajax component. A lot better than yahoo in my opinion, you can drag and drop what you want shown.
You have to disable "Google Suggest" (which is one of the main cool things about the extension) and it works ok.
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Could someone tell me why Google couldn't figure out how to stop its annoying habit of taking me back to iGoogle whenever it refreshes with multiple browsers open!
I really wanted to add the Wikipedia New additions feed. :(
: Newpages&feed=rss
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special
No joy though.
I've gotten Gmail's basic HTML view to work in Links (Lynx doesn't have https authentication). I'm sure Konqueror can do the same...
I love the slashdot mentallity. Whenever Microsoft does something, they automatically copied and ripped people off. Whenever Google does something, its new and cool and awesome.
now I've got Dailykos and Kuro5hin on there as well as Slashdot... thanks, Google!
Its sleeker, its faster.
Its shows my gmail..
And its, oh, ooohh, Ajax based..
This is sooo new guys, its so hot and its soo sweet. That your grand uncle will get wet just thinking about it..
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/19/223 8210&tid=217&tid=164&tid=162
The subject says it all, go away..
btw 8.02 supports bit torent, where is that in FireChicken...
This makes one feel that we are heading towards another technology 'switch'. The forward flip was the movement away from 'novell netware' type thin clients to desktop-resident memory-hogging apps. The reverse flip is back to a more network based application approach brought to the fore by browser based applications like Gmail and now Google personalizations. With the access to applications/information becoming increasingly mobile and the proliferation of access devices (like cellphone, laptops, desktops etc.) it is only natural to move back the applications to the network and have a ubiquitous and seamless access. The network is becoming the computer once again.
I'm using Platypus and Greasemonkey to eliminate Google's site down to a search box and the two buttons, "Google Search" and "I'm Feeling Lucky". Nothing else on the screen, nada. Of course, I'm using Better Search so the searches come with screenshots and other links, as well as notification of an RSS feed or not on the site. Very cool feature, btw. Google's homepage looks cool, but I'm happy with my shrunk down version already. =)
anybody notice that google maps doesn't appear to be an option anymore? that's one of the main reasons i switched to /ig
This is pretty interesting...when you go into to personalize your Google homepage, you get these various sections like "News", "Lifestyle" etc., that you can add to your page. If you click on the "Fun" section, you get three content options to add...and number two is "Ask Yahoo!" I guess they're returning the favor Yahoo! did them to get them to the top, much like what IBM did for Microsoft. For more on that historical review, go to: http://mp.blogs.com/mp/2005/07/s_9.html
This has been around for ages, I remember putting that stuff on my page months ago, maybe even last year. It irritates me when Slashdot has posts like this. Someone should have the job of making sure the news isn't obsolete.
I am surprised no one has pointed this out yet, but it's a copy of start.com:
http://www.start.com/myw3b/
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I noticed today that Google has some of the UGLIEST output on the planet. None of their outputted HTML is XHTML compliant (as you would assume the leader in simplistic design would want) and their code is all just clumped together in a few hideously huge strings.
Where's the pretty output Google? Where's the XHTML 1.0?
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