Archive for May, 2005

Google launched a new personalized service Thursday that incorporates features such as Google (Profile, Products, Articles) News and Gmail onto the company’s notoriously sparse home page. The service allows visitors to Google’s site to display content of their choosing below the query box on Google.com. Examples include headlines from The New York Times or the British Broadcasting Corp., stock quotes, weather information and as many as nine incoming Gmail messages, said Marissa Mayer, director of consumer Web products at Google.

Source: Google’s home page soon available with news, weather | InfoWorld | News | 2005-05-19 | By Tom Krazit, IDG News Service

I like this feature. It still has the Google-simplicity and is easy to customize. I like the ability to add gmail, weather, and news. They plan to add RSS feeds in a few months. I am wondering if this Google personalized home page becomes by default home page in Firefox and IE.

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# Project planning and management
# Brainstorming (alone or in a group)
# Managing meetings (agenda/participants/objectives…)
# Taking notes
# Drafting or writing presentations, speeches, lectures, books, reports, and papers
# Presenting in a visual way
# Organizing complex information to see the big picture
# Teaching, and facilitating learning (training, coaching…)
# Managing lists (of employees, customers, leads and vendors)
# Building organization charts
# Outlining business processes
# Planning and publishing web sites and intranets
# Reading and organizing RSS feeds
# Visualizing Google search results
# Managing “to do” lists and priorities
# Planning and management personal and team goals and objectives
# Tracking inventory, parts, components
# Organizing files and document
# Capturing major aspects and processes of someone’s job
# Planning events (conferences, off-sites)
# Facilitating a strategic process
# Analyzing and solving problems
# Managing quality assurance processes (such as Six Sigma processes)

Source: The Mindjet Blog

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A good list of what you can do with RSS. It helps you understand what RSS is all about.

Basically, you can perform any task with RSS that requires search or information retrieval from a server. Automatically and repeatedly. Here are my favourites (please let me know if there are better services and I’ll update). I use this list to convince people to start using an RSS feed reader. There’s more to RSS than just weblog syndication and news aggregation.

15 things you can do with RSS (it was supposed to be 10, but I got carried away) - Tim Yang’s Geek Blog

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