Leave it to Google to start their own RSS reader. Steve Rubel has the news. So does John Battelle. I am sure there are others. Many others. The Google blog has a tiny little post on it too.
Basically, when you sign in to your Google Personalized Homepage, go to the "Add Content" link in the upper left corner, a customization area comes out. You can of course fiddle with placement of stuff and add more news, some bookmarks , the weather or whatever.
But, the big news is that you can add in any blog to your Google homepage. In essence, your homepage now can act as your RSS aggregator, albeit on a small scale. Nobody in their right mind would ever think of managing 300 feeds on a homepage like this. At least, not with the current layout. Additionally, it only shows titles, not full text, so you have to link out.
The above is a screenshot of the new homepage with 2 blogs inserted. You can see them on the left - Blogaholics and Get Real. You have the option to change the number of posts shown but not how they are shown.
It may challenge My Yahoo, but I don't think it has anything to compare with Bloglines, Lektora, or any of the other RSS aggregators out there.
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1. rfid4dna on July 26, 2005 06:55 PM writes...
Very soon, I'm going to need an aggregator for my aggregators.
Permalink to Comment2. Dave Howe on July 27, 2005 06:48 AM writes...
The space is a problem, yes - but I note that neither of my current feed management tools (I use Thunderbird for high traffic lists, and a plugin for Desktop Sidebar) unless I click a given link - they show subject only, and either open the post in the preview pane (thunderbird) or my default web browser (desktop sidebar) if I click them.
This would be fine for my low-post-rate, high clickthough subscriptions such as Groklaw, obviously not so for (say) slashdot :)
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