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Are you getting web clippings in your Gmail?
by Victor Agreda, Jr. Aug 24th 2005 at 10:28PM
I have a small confession to make. I have more than one Gmail account. My primary account has used up almost 10% of it's capacity. Yowza. But for some reason I never saw this web clipping thing until today, when I randomly logged in to one of my lesser-used accounts... It appears at the top of the interface (see pic to the right), and allows you to view snippets of other sites. In the Settings there is even a tab where you can add/delete sites. I noticed our sister blog Engadget was preloaded (thanks for the love Google, now where's Download Squad?). My question to all of you out there with gmail accounts: how many of you won this lottery and are seeing web clippings in your Gmail?
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kevin said 10:31PM on 8-24-2005
Yea i have this also. If you go to settings you can add custom RSS feeds to it. I have engadget, hack a day, download squad, and auto blog set up on mine.
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Brett Epps said 1:41PM on 8-30-2005
I'm getting Web Clips too. I like the way Gmail displays spam-related recipes in the Web Clips area when you're in your spam folder.
I think it's a bit unfair that there was so much coverage on various websites about Microsoft renaming RSS when Google is doing the same thing with Web Clips (they're named that on the Google Sidebar, too).
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Jamie Brockington said 10:49PM on 8-24-2005
No fair! I don't have this is on either.. err.. my GMail account :(
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robotrock said 10:51PM on 8-24-2005
I've had this for a while...I wasn't aware it wasn't available to everyone.
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Chris said 10:54PM on 8-24-2005
I'm pretty sure they are rolling it out based on when you signed up, like they've done with most of the other stuff.
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dasickis said 11:30PM on 8-24-2005
Yeah I think I have had this feature for a few months already.
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tevetorbes said 11:17PM on 8-24-2005
No such feature on my account :(
However, I have http://www.google.com/ig set as my homepage, which allows me to add all the feeds that I want ad nauseum, so it'd probably be overkill to see more feeds when I wander over to gmail.
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Paul Spehar said 12:23AM on 8-25-2005
I agree with tevetorbes, I prefer Gmail on my IG page instead of feeds on my gmail page.
google/ig handles a massive pile of feeds. I have about 25 loaded on my page and it doesn't even strain open. I love the ease in which I can rearrange them with a simple drag and drop.
I wish it would popup a preview like the start.com/3 page though...
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Eric Jefcoat said 1:43AM on 9-04-2005
I have 4 gmail accounts and only one of them has web clippings. In fact, I had to manually load Engadget! I've had the web clippings from the time they were released and I use them a lot. As soon as I found Download Squad, I tried to enter the RSS into gmail's web clippings and it didn't recognize the feed. I haven't tried it since. Do you know if it works in gmail's web clippings?
Eric Jefcoat
http://paradigmshiftpodcast.org
(A blog and podcast on teaching with technology.)
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Arun said 12:43AM on 8-26-2005
I started seeing them a long time ago, at least a month or so, if not more. I just figured it was some promotion deal Weblogs, Inc. had with Google.
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Paul said 5:38AM on 8-25-2005
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Nicole Simon said 7:04AM on 8-25-2005
Don't have it either. :(
While I would not use it in general, but there would be one or two feeds I would like to monitor more closely.
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Colin Hill said 8:23AM on 8-25-2005
All of my accounts had it by June... But one of the friends I gave gmail to hasn't gotten it yet.
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Mark said 10:34AM on 8-25-2005
I've had this for ages. It's actually what introduced me to the whole concept of RSS feeds. I had heard the term before, but had no idea what they were. After I noticed the web clippings on my Gmail, I went and downloaded Feedreader, and the rest is history.
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nick santilli said 11:08AM on 8-25-2005
I've had my gmail account since almost day 1. I don't have the little feeds header in my account.
But my wife who is an infrequent user, and got her account from me about a month after I did, has it. WTF?
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mark said 11:22AM on 8-25-2005
My main gmail account doesn't have them, but my secondary account does. I have no idea how they are rolling this out, but would be curious to find out.
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Eliot Phillips said 1:10PM on 8-25-2005
I think only one of my five accounts has it.
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Steve said 5:40PM on 8-25-2005
I don't have it, something I'm very grieved about. I'm a fairly heavy user of gmail too :'(
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zatrix said 7:56PM on 8-25-2005
"The Gmail Team is currently testing a new feature called 'Gmail Clips,' which provides users access to news, blogs, and other information within their Gmail accounts, using RSS/Atom feeds. Currently, a small number of randomly selected users are testing the feature, but it may become more widely available in the future."
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xxdesmus said 10:15PM on 8-25-2005
3 accounts, only 1 has it...pretty useless if you ask me.
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