Comments on: Gmail’s new features – Atom feed and “inline” Contact list

By: Mohan Pathare

Mohan Pathare — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:24:08 +0000

It is really very nice. But when i use link in which username and password is mentioned i get error. i am not getting what is actually that.

By: Jeff Mesnil’s Weblog » Blog Archive » Gmail new features: Drafts and Mail Forwarding

Tue, 02 May 2006 19:10:04 +0000

[...] Google has updated Gmail and added a few features such as inline contacts and atom feed (more details). [...]

By: Olive

Olive — Fri, 29 Oct 2004 14:36:14 +0000

In Firefox, create a livemark pointing to:
https://username:password@gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom
Note that only the messages marked as new will be displayed.
Hope it helps.

By: HaMMeR-HeaD

HaMMeR-HeaD — Sun, 17 Oct 2004 13:17:50 +0000

The Atom-icon was shown for just a little period of time (testing purposes only). I think this means that it will be perfectionised so don’t worry ;)

By: Hetfield

Hetfield — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 02:03:25 +0000

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amame24@hotmail.com

By: magpiebrain

magpiebrain — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 16:30:48 +0000

And in GMail related news…
Skinning GMail Over at persistent.info, Hammers has used the URLid extension for Firefox to create a personal skin for GMail using CSS. The result is less than stunning, however does show the potential. Personally, GMail’s interface has put me of…

By: Jansen

Jansen — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 02:03:29 +0000

i haven’t seen the atom icon yet. but i’d think the atom feed may be incorporated into notifier, while the atom feed may include not only gmail, but also google group and google alert.

By: Nathan Wong

Nathan Wong — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 01:21:03 +0000

Hmm, I’m not seeing the Atom feed either, and it’s not mentioned on the new features.. I take it’s in beta testing, and perhaps they’ll rewrite the way it works somehow.. like a hash key (similar to WHM (CPanel Web Host Manager) remote sort of thing), instead of your raw password.. something you can regenerate easily, and something that doesn’t expose anything.

By: Cow

Cow — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 20:28:32 +0000

If anyone hasn’t got the Atom feed, you can find it at https://gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom.

Interestingly, you can use HTTP auth. This means you can use the username@password construct in alot of feed readers. Add this to your feed reader:

http://gmailusername:password@gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom/

If you use Livemarks or Sage and GMail is always logged in, you don’t need to do this, but its probably better to do so.

By: Just Another Blog

Just Another Blog — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 15:56:26 +0000

Gmail’s New Features
Some people are more lucky more I! Cheah Chu Yeow found Atom feed and inline contact list and Jeff Mesnil found drafts and mail forwarding. These new features are not available to most users, so stay calm. :-)

It’s nice to see these improvements. …

By: foobah

foobah — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 08:57:24 +0000

I dont have the options yet, but the inline Contacts isa big step in the right direction, for both speed and usability.
Personally, I’m waiting / hoping for them in allow contacts to be grouped, and thus emails filtered based on their respecive groupings (Family, university, accounts etc).

Nice site btw :)

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By: minghong

minghong — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 03:09:04 +0000

After a second thought, it’s cool, BUT useless…

I also have the Gmail notifier for Mozilla/Firefox. Google also had released its own Gmail notifier.

If someone doesn’t use these tools, he/she needs to login Gmail first before using the feed. So how useful can it be? :-/

By: Richard Soderberg

Richard Soderberg — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 23:38:56 +0000

Obviously the Atom feed won’t work unless you are authenticated (so RSS/Atom feed readers won’t be able to get anything).

Several of the newsreaders I’m aware of integrate with the web browser’s authentication handler for web services, including cookie-based authentication; I reported one or two WebKit crashes with regards to the cookie sharing stuff. The browser-based readers and the .NET-based readers also are likely to have access to authentication cookies, but in any case it matters very much how GMail does things now and how each individual reader integrates with the user’s process properly.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 22:19:22 +0000

I don’t have the drafts feature or the atom. I feel so left out :(

By: Jeff Mesnil

Jeff Mesnil — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 19:04:57 +0000

On my Gmail account, I also have the possibility to save drafts and to forward email to another email address (some screenshots).

Did you get that too?
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jeff