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Gmail Gets RSS

Posted by Zonk on from the i'm-waiting-for-the-fryalator-feature dept.

Everyone with a UID and Paul Stamatiou writes "Google's Gmail email service now sports a new feature for displaying RSS feeds, dubbed Web Clips. You might remember this name, as it is the same name Google Desktop refers to RSS feeds. Web Clips for Gmail were announced a long time ago sometime during the summer but they were finally stable enough to release to the general public. You can check out the what's new page for Gmail here. Essentially, you subscribe to a bunch of feeds and everytime you log into Gmail it loads the lastest title from each feed which you can scroll through with left/right arrows. Don't forget to check the actual post about Web Clips for Gmail on the Google Blog."

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  1. Can't say I was overly impressed this morning... by garcia · · Score: 2, Informative

    I saw it when I opened GMail to do my daily clean up of my GMail archive account. I disabled 99% of it and added Slashdot as the only "Webclip" available. The first (and only) story it showed was from 18 hours ago. Not exactly useful for me I guess.

    YMMV.

  2. I want GeoRSS, and Google can make it a reality... by Lord+Satri · · Score: 1, Informative

    Not the first time I post about it, but I really see this as the future of RSS: GeoRSS. And you know what, if one company can push the georss standard to general use, yup, it's Google.

    What's georss? From slashgisrs: A team is working on Geographically Encoded Objects for RSS feeds. From the overview: "GeoRSS is simple proposal for RSS feeds to also be described by location or Geotagged. We standardize the way in which "where" is encoded with enough simplicity and descriptive power to satisfy most needs to describe the location of Web content. [...] it should serve as an easy-to-use geotagging language that is brief and simple with useful defaults but extensible and upwardly-compatible with more sophisticated formats like the OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) GML (Geography Markup Language)".

    The Open Geospatial Consortium is really an important body in the geospatial community. They're the one whom just made WMS an ISO Standard.

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  3. great, more ads by ryan420 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Another way to shove AdSense down our throats. So far, it seems like roughly 1 of every 3 clips is an advertisement.

    Does anyone else find this totally unexciting? Thank god you can turn this feature off.

  4. More GMail Humor by aschran · · Score: 5, Informative

    Did anyone else notice that if you click on your Spam folder it displays recipes for SPAM, and if you click on the Trash it shows you recycling tips. :-)

  5. Re:Warning to old media by jrockway · · Score: 2, Informative

    You're both wrong ;)

    Podcasts are meant to be downloaded, not streamed. (Originally designed for iPods, which don't do network streaming.)

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  6. Re:Great! by ClearlyPennsylvania · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well, I love it. And I don't see any ads. But, if you really don't like it, you can: 1) Customize what feeds you get 2) Disable it (go to settings)