Google Web Clips
Last week I started noticing ads and other links appearing at the top of my gmail inbox…wasn’t sure exactly what it was, but today I finally got around to checking it out. This one line is used to display syndicated feeds (which google calls “clips”) and unfortunately…ads. The cool thing is you can remove all the boring cooking and news feeds that Google has added by default and put in any feed you want…I started putting in a lot of blogs and such to test it out. When I started clicking around, I only saw an actual adsense ad after about 20 clicks.
I’m not quite sure yet if I’ll get bored with this since I extensively use SharpReader for all of my syndication pleasure. Fortunately you can disable the new feature alltogether (Settings -> Web Clips…or just click the “Customize” button in the web clips box…this however will disappear once gmail thinks you have finally mastered the customization). So is this new feature just an elaborate way to show more ads inside of gmail? I personally like the simplicity of my inbox and even though this is very small (and kinda cool) I don’t like the path it could lead to (more and more ads everywhere you look). Although I can’t really say much since the B-Log sold out and smudged it’s layout with ads….Google ads none-the-less.
Would this be considered a really simple really simple syndication reader(RS RSS R)?
Posted on the google blog. More on the gmail what’s new page and in the gmail: help center
February 24th, 2006 at 12:24 am
there is: Google Reader - http://www.google.com/reader GritWire - http://www.gritwire.com/ Newsgator - https://www.newsgator.com/consumer.aspx FeedReader BlogLines - http://www.bloglines.com/ Yahoo Microsoft Live - http://www.live.com
February 24th, 2006 at 12:25 am
I was aware of other simple news aggregators…I was really just wondering if the acronym RSRSSR had been used to describe them.