Google has added RSS functionality to their Gmail (Official Google Blog: A cure for the common inbox). The blog entries appear above your inbox in a headline-like manner pulling a generic set of feeds upon which you can add more of your choosing.

Gmail Clips are certainly not a very powerful or elegant RSS reader, especially when compared to how well Google has implemented Gmail as a web-based e-mail client. Making this even more unattractive for me, is their inclusion of Google Sponsored Links as Clips.

Unlike Dave Winer’s desire that they call Web Clips as RSS more outright, I am glad that they didn’t because these clips would leave a novice RSS consumer with a disappointed opinion as to what RSS is all about.

This entry was posted by Ted Pibil on Friday, December 9th, 2005 at 3:33 pm and is filed under RSS. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.