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e mërkurë tetor 13, 2004
Gmail adds Atom feeds From Steve Rubel I learnt that Gmail added an atom feed to read the emails from your Gmail account in a RSS aggregator. It does not seem to be public yet but Barnaby James in his comment section mentions the url: https://gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom. Your Rss aggregator must support https and basic auth. NetNewsWire does:-)
I tried it right away in NetNewsWire: it asked me for my Gmail login/password, and presto, it worked!
The Atom entries contain only the first 80 to 90 characters in the mail. So you're obliged to go to the site to read the rest. This allows them to avoid putting ads in the feed. The item link just goes back to Gmail, not to the exact email that is represented by the post. I guess it's something they might want to implement.
With feeds to mail gateways, this mail to feed gateway closes the loop: Desktop News aggregators have mostly copied the 3 pane interface design of Desktop mail clients. With this you can even read your mail in them:-)
In the end, the type of client you use to read your mail or feeds doesn't really matter: I see feeds as just one more type of source of information, and blogs as one more sink, or destination. Mail readers and news aggregators will adapt to let their users sort through all this information and send it where they see fit.
( Tet 13 2004, 08:15:09 PD PDT ) Permalink Comments [2] Chat about it
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Daniel Steinberg chimes in for Alameda on java.net: Watson - come here
Watson - come here -: "I want to see you (open sourced on java.net)."
I've refrained to talk about this before, but since it seems to be public knowledge I guess I can write a bit about it here. I've used Watson, and Alameda when Dan was still at Sun, and I really loved it. It has a great potential as a web service rich client framework. I hope we'll make something out of it.
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