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Old 07-25-2005, 08:33 PM  
Donny
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My Life Is Complete: Google Adds an RSS Reader (READ AND DO THIS PEOPLE!!)

The moment I've been waiting for since first learning about Google's Personalized Homepage has finally arrived! Google now allows users to add content to their page using RSS readers!

In case you don't know what I'm talking about, let me demonstrate... here is my My Yahoo page:

[img]http://www.***************.com/images/myyahoo.jpg[/img]

If your eyes are really good (or if you have a magnifying glass) you can see that right below the search box on My Yahoo page is a section that says Donny's Ramblings: Diary of a Pornographer. Below that title are the latest updates to my blog. It is on my My Yahoo page because Yahoo allows users to add content to their start page using an RSS reader. I simply click on the "add content" button and type in the RSS feed for my blog, which happens to be:

http://www.***************.com/donny...s.com/atom.xml

Further down my My Yahoo page is a list of other blogs I like to keep up with. Now everyday when I open my homepage I can see the latest entries in my favorite blogs. They show up just like any other news link.

I've been a google kind of guy for quite sometime. The entire reason I use My Yahoo is because of the RSS feed option. Until I heard Yahoo offered one I'd always had my homepage set on http://news.google.com. Then Google came out with a personalized homepage, but an RSS reader wasn't available.

Now, finally, an RSS reader is available from Google's personalized homepage! Take a look at what I mean:

[img]http://www.***************.com/images/google.jpg[/img]

See the top of the center column? There's my blog! And I'll be adding all my other favorite blogs soon! Google, the prodigal son is comin' home, baybeeee!

The moral of this story? Set your homepage to MyYahoo, MyMSN, or Google Homepage... then add my blog to your page via RSS using the feed URL I gave you earlier.

Now.

What are you still here for??? Go do it!
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