Google launched a new personalized service this week that incorporates features such as Google 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, says Marissa Mayer, director of consumer Web products at Google.
The Mountain View, California, company demonstrated the service during a press event at its headquarters. Currently available for preview at Google Labs, the personalized service allows visitors to include information from 12 different feeds on their view of the Google home page. Google will add support for a variety of RSS feeds to the personalized service within one to two months, Mayer says. Anyone with a free Google Account can set up a page, she says. The service was rolled out as a beta product, similar to how Google News and Gmail, the company's Web e-mail service, were introduced.
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News source: PCWorld
The Mountain View, California, company demonstrated the service during a press event at its headquarters. Currently available for preview at Google Labs, the personalized service allows visitors to include information from 12 different feeds on their view of the Google home page. Google will add support for a variety of RSS feeds to the personalized service within one to two months, Mayer says. Anyone with a free Google Account can set up a page, she says. The service was rolled out as a beta product, similar to how Google News and Gmail, the company's Web e-mail service, were introduced.
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Changelog:
- - New: DRM WMA Playback supports out_wave
- New: Non-DRM WMA Playback allows any output plugin
- New: Community Picks AVS Preset Pack
- New: Windows Media Audio Ripping/Encoding
- New: Deletes in the Media Library now move files to the Recycle Bin
- New: NSV Subtitles can be disabled on the fly
- Fixed: gen_ml shutdown bug
- Fixed: Easy Move of video window back to normal *
- Fixed: Pause in WMA playback memory leak
- Fixed: Multi-monitor full screen video *
- Fixed: Drag and Drop in playlist editor *
- Fixed: Drag and Drop on Winamp *
- Fixed: Now Playing update on song change *
- Fixed: Media Library/Windows Media scanning errors *
- Fixed: Stay in fullscreen/Config mismatch *
- Fixed: Ctrl-B Crash *
- Fixed: Authentication for OGG/Vorbis streams
- Fixed: Drag and Drop strange behavior in open file dialogs
- Fixed: Stuttering WMA On Start and Seek
- Fixed: NSV Video stall during buffering
- Fixed: Autosize of video to be accurate to the Video size not snap size
- Fixed: Short NSV Clips audio cutout
- Update: Online Media tree is now dynamic (Checking can now be disabled)
- Update: Sonic Install/Config flag mismatch
- Update: CD Ripping/Burning Library (possible cause of msvcrt.dll errors)
- Other general small tweaks/bugfixes ;-)
Too bad you can't add your own stuff. That would be even better!
But still, I like it
I love it! I just love the way that one can drag and drop things!!!
Still, since this is aparantly an opt-in service, I'm ok with Google offering this: Some people seem to want it.
Eh, it is, and will still be according to their FAQ.
This is an additional feature for those who care for it.
The default page is and will stay as clean as ever.
I really like this, however. I just don't think they should integrate with their home page. Something like my.google.com for something like this would be more appropriate me thinks.
but as a first (public) release its not bad at all
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