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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?
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.
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.
I've been using features like this on My MSN for ages (2 or 3 years now). Its not that Google hasn't created something good (since I like My MSN a great deal) its just that people shouldn't always jump to the conclusion that they are always ahead of the curve.
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"... 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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Of course when Yahoo did it, it didn't make Slashdot news. Don't worry, in a couple of month's people will start claiming Yahoo ripped that feature off of Google.
Oh no!
Lynx users are SOL too!
Seriously though, they did manage to make sure it works with 99.5% of all the web browsers currently out there. Nobody is forcing you to be that 0.5%.
I'm in Toronto, and I can get the weather. What irks me though is the fact that the temperatures default to Fahrenheit. The current temperature also has a Celcius value (but it's secondary) and all the long term forecasts are in Fahrenheit. There is no option to change everything to Celcius. I was only taught Celcius in school, and was led to believe that Fahrenheit was left on the thermometers to appease the old-timers.
This is the 21st century, people! Let's start using those SI units that everybody* has agreed on.
*The States not included
--Mike Boos
You're stupid. The language doesn't change because some idiots get it wrong.
It's amazing how short people's memories are ... just a couple years ago, everyone was saying Microsoft knew exactly what it is doing, and before that it was Yahoo knows exactly what it's doing. The question/challenge for Google is how it will react as a company when the stock price drops and there's no money to fun these free initiatives. It's hard to "do no evil" when you are trying to figure out how to lift employee morale, report profitability and retain competitive advantages.
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?
Securityfocus, blogsites, infinite matter of the universe. I think being able to have your own home page with rss feeds is great!
You may choose to use Konqueror for a list of valid reasons, but in terms of fonts, I think your case is far from rested.