For those that don’t know, RSS (and there’s so many different meanings to that acronym, I’m just going to let it go) is a form of publishing a list of posts or news so that others can subscribe to them. For example, you can subscribe to the CNN RSS feed, and it will let you know each time there’s a new headline posted.
Anyways, i’ve been looking for a nice way to easily scan all the websites I visit daily for new posts and updates, without having to load and and go to each one to check for anything new. And then i discovered Google’s nice new Personalized Home Page. It allows me to “input” (imagine me making the quotes with my fingers) RSS “feeds” (again with the quotes) from my favorite websites, and then view the top 3-5 headlines from each one on my spiffy Google page. Plus I use Google for search so much anyways, so it’s right there along with Weather and other useful things.
No, I don’t work for Google and I’m not trying to get any special attention for hyping their product. But this has worked out so well for me, and seemed so simple, I thought maybe you all woud like it too.
Or maybe it’s stupid and so am I. Huh, who knows?
I’ve been using the AJAX app netvibes these past few days. I’m liking it so far.