Stravinsky's Sizzlin' Shack

Well on Wednesday, we all saw a GTalk promo advert featured on the side bar of GMail and today there's RSS feeds on the top panel of GMail. In GMail, these RSS feeds are named 'Web Clips' (WTF? why can't they just be called RSS Feeds? - possibly the name might have to do with Beautification :-D) Some of the featured rss feeds include news/tech/financial and sports but I've also spotted a couple of sponsored advertisement links. Another good way for Google to advertise their own google product/service launches/releases within GMail.




The inbox usually consits of news/financial RSS feeds pulled from sources like FT.com, Forbes, CNN, BBC, etc. and you have the option of adding your own feeds and removing pre-defined ones:




And spam folder has got recepie-oriented rss feeds:




....while the trash box contains vital and creative recycling tips:




Just like the GTalk Promo Advert in GMail - that has the option to remove it from the interface by clicking the tiny 'x' in the corner, these RSS Feeds aka 'Web Clips' can be removed from the top panel by going to your settings tab in GMail and unchecking the checkbox titled - Show my web clips above the Inbox:




I wonder if GMail Web Clips supports an OPML feed yet, however, if you're interested you can pull together all your favorite feeds into one huge rss feed (for atom feeds just burn them as an rss feed using FeedBurner) just like what Philipp at Google Blogoscoped has done with all official Google Blogs - and then add the all-in-one rss feed to GMail's Web Clips.