Latest Innovation from GMail: Web Clips
April 27th, 2005 Leave a comment Visited 38 times, 1 so far today
Latest Innovation from GMail: Web Clips
My GMail is yet to be updated by this nice little feature but knowing Google it would not take long enough. Google has apparently added a new interesting functionality to its webmail service and it is related to one of the hottest concept on the web regarding information access: RSS Feeds. We at TechWhack discovered it while surfing around on the web and landing across this webpage.
Like the Rich Text Toolbar, this addition seems to be made available to all the GMail users in stages and we expect to see it in our Inboxes soon enough. The concept is quite handy as it let us check out latest news and updates from various websites while checking our mail! How deep does the GMail interface go in providing access to the feeds is something we should know when the option is made available in our inboxes.
Google calls the concept Web Clips and shows the feed headlines at the top of the mails. Users are free to add their own RSS feeds and GMail swaps between them and some ads. Google as usual reportedly labels the advertisements nicely, which is good on their part. We hope we get access to this little functionality as soon as possible!
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August 30th, 2005 at 04:04 am
We hoped we’d get them soon. But the first were rolled out months ago, and still no clips for me.
August 30th, 2005 at 08:46 pm
You don’t want them. They waste screen estate and are nothing but another avenue for adsense ads. It’s quite sad actually because I have loved every step google has taken with gmail until this one. It’s horrible and you can’t turn it off.
September 5th, 2005 at 05:45 pm
Woah! I never knew that? You can’t diasble them! This is not good news. How about for people who have only just mastered email, the semi-computer illiterate types: they suddenly find this rotating stream of text on their inbox, something to do with RSS, that they can’t get off!