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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]
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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.
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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'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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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.
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.
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...
Can you believe this? Yahoo has totally ripped off this way cool feature from google! They have this thing where you can add RSS feeds to your portal to get content from anywhere. Google has had it for a week, and now Yahoo! is jumping on the bandwagon. I'm not sure what this RSS thing is but I'm pretty sure google invented it. Man, they are the greatest company ever.
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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.
Nah! If Google had bought Slashdot, they would have renamed it gDot.
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
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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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.
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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.
You're stupid. The language doesn't change because some idiots get it wrong.
Yahoo! also has the advantage in that they have integrated RSS into their search. Notice that a few of the sites have "RSS: ... Add to My Yahoo!" in the search results. Very handy.
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It may yet happen...and in the meantime, we can say we're "Waiting for gDot".
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.
I can. You can't drag the boxes around (yet) but it's far more customizable than Google's. Yes, it has ads, but Google plans to add ads to their customizable home page too.
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