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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.
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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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Its not always Google that is the new hotness.
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Microsoft IE 5.5+ (download: Windows)
- Netscape 7.1+ (download: Windows Mac Linux)
- Mozilla 1.4+ (download: Windows Mac Linux)
- Mozilla Firefox 0.8+ (download: Windows Mac Linux)
- Safari 1.2.1+ (download: Mac)
Many other browsers work with Gmail's basic HTML view, including:
- Microsoft IE 4.0+
- Netscape 4.07+
- Opera 6.03+
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.
"... 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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Apparently so. I just got this today.
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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!
Because it's illogical: most other possessives have an apostrophe. And a short survey of modern English usage (as seen, for example, on Slashdot) will tell you that the usage is changing: quite possibly the apostrophe in the possessive "it's" will be the norm in a few years time.
Still, I'm glad you're not pompous.
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".
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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He's talking about the computer's right
Computers dont have any rights, you insensitive clod!
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No no, the confusion is between stage right and house right
> Because it's illogical: most other possessives have an apostrophe.
Like Your's, Hi's, Her's, Their's, and Our's?
I wish the language would evolve in the opposite direction and lose the apostrophe, everywhere.
I am no longer wasting my time with slashdot
Use Mozilla or Safari. It works fine.
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?
Welcome to grammar school.
All possessive pronouns do not use apostrophes.
His
Hers
Yours
Mine
Theirs
Ours
Its
There is no magic to this rule.
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.
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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
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I love it. Ask Yahoo on Google.
Wow, I should not post when knackered.
actually if the quotation marks are used for a word or phrase and not a quote then the punctuation goes outside, right?
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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?
If it's common enough, it's not a mistake any longer.
You're stupid. The language doesn't change because some idiots get it wrong.
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?
Shouldn't there be a slightly different standard for a post on the main page, read by hundreds of thousands? It doesn't reflect an "evolution of modern English," it reflects contempt for English usage in a "don't tell me all your fancy book-learnin'" kinda way.
I tried to add my del.icio.us bookmarks rss feed.
didn't work for me. has anyone tried it?
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.)
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?
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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"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)
Here ya go.
In British English the full stop goes outside the quotes: far more intuitive (expecially for those who write well-formed XML)!
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.
just enter the feed url into the search box and it get added...
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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?
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
It didn't work for me, but I refreshed a couple times and it did.
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Works fine for me ..
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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.
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...
True, the apostrophe is not used in posessive pronouns like his/hers, however it used for proper nouns, like "That is John's car." So it is confusing in that way.
However, the way I approach the its/it's confusion is to think of the other use for the apostrophe, i.e. in a contraction. The apostrophe is taking the place of one or more letters. So, if you mean to say "it is", then you replace it with the contraction "it's" (in the same way that you replace "cannot" with "can't".)
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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Yep.
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
Something X is far more useful for actual human usage because reason Y
Give it a rest. This argument is what you use with whatever you prefer against what you are unfamiliar with.
I don't care myself. I have to know a lot of different units to function. I do believe the SI-units are the no-bullshit forms of measurement though.
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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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My workaround for your issue is as follows: 1) install Firefox Gmail Notifier Plugin 2) set it to 'Automatically Log In' 3) set home page as a local html file with a meta refresh to google.com/ig 4) ???? 5) profit??
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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http://groups-beta.google.com/group/CustomizeGoog
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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...
What do you mean? Americans have been misspelling "colour" for a couple hundred years, and now "color" is the standard.
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.
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/19/223 8210&tid=217&tid=164&tid=162
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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