Gmail’s Web Clips for all
Posted on December 9, 2005
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I can see and control my Gmail Web Clips now. Yay me…. Interesting little gadget seems to give me one headline at a time across the top of my gmail inbox. I can hit left or right arrows to scroll through them. Click on the associated link to open a window and see the article. You can use their canned feeds or provide your own RSS feeds. Meh. Kinda neat, but I’m a bit underwhelmed. Why? Read on.
I tried Google Reader a while back. Also an RSS reader and reasonably tolerable to use, but it doesn’t work the way I like to read. Netvibes still works the best for me.. Anyways… Gmail Web Clips and Google Reader are both on Google. Why can’t I tell Web Clips in Gmail to junk all the canned stuff and just use what I’ve subscribed to in Google Reader? Huh huh? Why not?
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Because Reader is ‘beta’. Why not have Google Transit on the regular google local/directions search? Because it’s in beta- still being worked on.
I, too, have tried out Google Reader… I expect there to be a huge update sometime in the next few months that will probably give Reader more popularity, since it hasn’t had much since its release.
Well sure, a very valid point. But dangit… How many times can you cut and paste the same feeds? Inevitably, trying to compare one reader to another you can just about plan on one of ‘em not supporting OPML.
Cutting and pasting makes me an old cranky guy.