Well, it’s been a busy week at Google. Now Gmail is sporting a new “Web Clips” feed reader on a single line above the inbox. It displays items from preset lists in different categories, and you can add your own custom Clips. This feature is only on one of my accounts. And i found this post from over four months ago that seems to document the same thing. At first i was a little annoyed—oh great, ads. Especially with the few Clips i kept seeing. But you can easily customize it to only show feeds you’re interested in, and i added a few others i knew of. And very quickly, i’ve changed my mind, and think that i’m going to like this.
I never could get into the whole feed thing before—either with a dedicated feed reader, or using Thunderbird, or with Firefox’s Live Bookmarks. Just didn’t want the hassle of a whole nother program. I also roam too much, so wouldn’t always have access to certain programs or local copies of my bookmarks. Something integrated into Gmail—which i use all the time at every location— is perfect. Now i just need to find a web-based bookmarking system that i’m really happy with and i’ll be set.
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Yeah, apparently, Google’s been rolling this out since April, but this is the first i’ve heard of it. Odd, though, that it was activated on an account i opened after my first, which does not have it.
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