Um, so what? Ya, it is cool for Google to have personalized homepages. But what about RSS feeds for our aggregators! In their defense, they are working on ads for just such a task. But could they possible hurry up and catch up to Yahoo?

My friends have been asking me for something that could add Gmail and news headlines to the Google homepage. I saw a Slashdot post requesting the same thing, and someone wrote back: if you want that feature, do it yourself and whip up some code or scrape the data. Of course, why would my friends spend any time hacking this together when they could just get me to do it for them?

So I got involved with the ‘fusion’ initiative by joining the team working on a personalized homepage. We launched today, so now I can return the Python books I bought my lazy friends. Check it out and tell us what else you want to see. We just might code it up. [Read the rest]