BLOGWITHOUTALIBRARY.NET » google http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net libraries, technology, UX, &c. Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:37:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 google reader http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/130 http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/130#comments Sat, 08 Oct 2005 00:21:47 +0000 ae-j http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/?p=130 Google has launched an RSS reader in beta. I haven’t played around with it all that much yet, mostly because it’s slowlikeyouwouldn’tbelieve, also because it wouldn’t play with my OPML file whatsoever. I’ll probably have more to say about it over the next few days, in the meantime, here’s a pretty comprehensive review.

Later: Still haven’t played much with Google Reader, but just discovered The Official Google Reader Blog which I will probably keep my eyes on.

]]> http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/130/feed 2 google homepage http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/111 http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/111#comments Fri, 05 Aug 2005 17:46:43 +0000 ae-j http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/?p=111 I’ve been playing with Google homepage to-day. Here’s a screen shot of mine (particularly liked the Bertrand Russell quote since my library houses the Russell Archives!). Nothing revolutionary here, I haven’t committed to it yet so I’ve only gotten around to adding feeds to my own blogs as a test. In good Google fashion, it’s easy to use and has a pretty clear interface. Apart from that, no real bells and whistles that set it apart from My Yahoo! or any of the other personal portal sites I’ve seen. It’s a step in the right direction for RSS, but otherwise, still pretty limited in scope.

I don’t think I’ll ever use a portal myself (bloglines is all I need), I just love playing with them because they remind me of PointCast, which I just thought was the bee’s knees back in 1997!

]]> http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/111/feed 0 Yahoo! News feeds, I’m just getting this… http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/59 http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/59#comments Fri, 22 Oct 2004 03:45:23 +0000 ae-j http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/?p=59 And here I was thinking I was all caught up on all things RSS. Yahoo! News has been offering RSS feeds of search results for about a month. For my purposes, feeds for searches has to be one of the best uses of RSS technology, even better than blog feeds or news feeds, or any of those other standard feed types. I’ve had about 12 Google news alerts coming to me since they launched the service, and I think it was about a year ago that I emailed them to ask if RSS was on their radar. They said it was. I’m sure the new Yahoo! News search feeds will spirit RSS up the priority list at Google.

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