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Google Gets More Personal
Tags: Google has expanded the capabilities of their Personalized Home. Previously, Google’s portal was of limited use to most as it did not support user’s custom RSS feeds. This has now changed, and users did rejoice; except for me.
Firstly, this should have been available from day 1. But more importantly, I ask who still actively uses portals? No disrespect, but those that are familiar with RSS (enough to copy and paste a link into Google’s portal site) are more than likely using an external RSS aggregator. I have yet to see a webportal offer anything but the minimal functionality as compared to 90% of the RSS readers available today. Myself, I use Sage, an extension available for Mozilla Firefox.
I will not discredit the advantage of a centrally located and thus accessible collection of RSS feeds, but this again is not unique to webportals. Pluck accomplishes much of the same, and then some. Yes YES, I’m aware all my examples require the installation of another application. Regardless, what is the continued attraction to portals? That is soooo late ’90s.
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