Easy RSS Reading With iGoogle
Posted on December 18, 2007
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I like having stuff available from everywhere–email (gmail), documents (Google Docs) and especially RSS feeds (iGoogle), so that if I don’t have access to my laptop I can access everything from any computer in the world that has an internet connection. Sure, there are other online services for RSS subscriptions, but I like everything in a centralized location. I can click a tab for email, another for docs, another for RSS and yet another for news.
iGoogle is a personalized homepage for those with Google accounts. It’s basically a themeable page on which hundreds of different widgets can be added such as calendars, daily comic feeds (Garfield is a favorite of mine), news, RSS feeds, and so much more. I love it, because I can just go to iGoogle and access everything I need.
How does one set up an RSS feed widget with iGoogle? Well, it’s easy if you already have a Google account! Here’s how:
1. Go to your iGoogle page
2. Click the add stuff link, as shown in the below picture.
3. Click the Add RSS feed link in the left sidebar.
4. Put in the feed URL of the website you wish to subscribe to. The feed of most Wordpress blogs is reachable by simply adding /feed to the end of the site’s URL. For example, the feed location of this blog would be www.crackermarketer.com/feed.
5. Go back to your iGoogle page, and view your fancy new RSS feed widget! You can now add more RSS feeds, adjust their settings (such as how many items to display in the feed), or add other widgets (or as Google calls them, gadgets).
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