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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. Re:Warning to old media by panthro · · Score: 2, Insightful

    My various daily updated websites that use metafile data to pass a hyperlink (blog with RSS feed for you non-jerk-new-wordphobes)

    I like it when people call things what they are. Now, back to listening to my network-streamed compressed audio (podcast?).

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  2. Re:Can't say I was overly impressed this morning.. by tommers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I check all my feeds on My Yahoo once a day, and then once I've read what interests me, I feel done with them. I can't imagine being happy with just randomly presented feeds. Especially one at a time.

    Definitely going to stick with My Yahoo for now.

  3. Re:I h8 Gmail by panthro · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Um... no?

    Seriously, I've used it from behind a whole whack of different firewall/proxy configurations, and I've never had a single problem. And what could you possibly need to screw with in your browser? Turn on JavaScript?

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  4. calender by robgue · · Score: 5, Insightful

    really they need to add a calender. i think this would be the icing on the cake and would be essential imo for people to use gmail as they're primary interface.

  5. No integration by Rolan · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Unfortunately, there's no integration with the google homepage where you also setup your news/RSS feeds. The data has to be setup twice, when it should really be from the same place.

    Google has a lot of nice stuff, but they've got a lot of work to do to integrate it and bring it to the most useful.

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