Comments on: GMail Gets RSS Clips

By: JW

JW — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 15:00:00 +0000

"Over the past few months, I’ve been working on Gmail Clips…"

He's been working on this for months?! That simple bar that displays headlines? Months?!

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二次方 - RSS Way » Blog Archive » GMail增加了RSS阅读的功能 — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 01:10:22 +0000

[...] “I am trying to add feeds, but having no luck in searching for topics etc. If you are successful, let me know. Otherwise, we might have to catalog this as yet another premature launch from Google!”—Om Malik’s Blog [...]

By: Thomas Mango

Thomas Mango — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 05:02:23 +0000

Follow up to original post: http://www.trikenit.com/2005/12/10/gmails-web-clips-follow-up/

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 01:04:45 +0000

Any new feature for Gmail is appreciated, but I’m not so sure Web Clips help too much. You can read my take here http://www.paulstamatiou.com/2005/12/09/gmail-now-has-rss/ which got on Slashdot this afternoon!

Keep up the good work Om, from a fellow 9ruler.

By: Nigel L

Nigel L — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 16:25:21 +0000

I put your feed and the other top-tier ones on my google.com/ig and start.com and that works fine. I agree that this is merely a way to stream ads across the top of the page.

By: Thomas Mango

Thomas Mango — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 16:03:26 +0000

My Take: http://www.trikenit.com/2005/12/09/how-to-turn-off-gmails-web-clips/

By: Elegance and Efficacy

Elegance and Efficacy — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 15:58:38 +0000

Gmail Web Clutter, err Clips

Gmail seems to have rolled their Web Clips feature out to all users today.  Here’s the product description and a screenshot:
Web Clips shows you news headlines, Gmail tips, blogs, any RSS and Atom feed, relevant sponsored links, and more —...

By: Mathew

Mathew — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 15:17:09 +0000

I have to agree with Dave Whiner, er… Winer. Web Clips is just dumb — a bad idea, badly executed.

By: Steve Cornelius

Steve Cornelius — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 14:16:24 +0000

Unless this is something different, Gmail has had this “service” for several months…at least it’s been available on my Gmail account. Pretty underwhelming, actually. I wish they would figure out how to make Google Reader work better. I can’t unsubscribe any of my feeds.

By: Brady Joslin

Brady Joslin — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 13:59:26 +0000

Pretty underwhelming functionality from what I can tell. Somehow the “headline” feels more like volunteering to see a new ad. Maybe that’s because the first headline I had was a link to some TigerDirect sale. Certainly seems more like a Google gimmick than anything useful. I turned this off for my account.

By: Brandon Martus

Brandon Martus — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 11:44:52 +0000

My girlfriend has had this for months. It’s been driving me nuts trying to figure out how to add it to mine. Looks like it went public finally.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 08:46:19 +0000

Got on Gmail about two hours ago and couldn't browse/search for any clips.

Am on Gmail now and all is working fine. Added, yours, Scobble's and Pirillo's feed and, again, all is fine.

Ade (Manchester, UK)

By: GMail Gets RSS Clips

GMail Gets RSS Clips — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 07:40:02 +0000

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By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 07:24:16 +0000

I will give it a try, just let me sign up for Google WebAccelerator (so that my experience will be faster) and check my Google Analytics account for up-to-the-minute reports.

Oops, Gmail is down, cross your fingers. I better head out to Google Transit and see what they've got for Austin, TX.