Yesterday Google announced "Web Elements", which, in a nutshell is the brilliant and innovative concept of syndicating news content from their database to your web site.Oooooooo, what a unique idea, it's only as old as, I dunno, RSS feeds.
RSS feeds do have a couple drawbacks, those being that you need to have either a feed reader to read them easily or have some technical knowledge to parse them out and show them on your web site. Both drawbacks of which can be easily remedied by any number of free solutions found all over the internet. The upside of RSS is that if you do have the technical know-how you can integrate them seamlessly into your web site's content.
With this new fangled whiz-bang "Elements" thing the only real new part of it is that you can tie it in to your Google AdSense account if you so choose. Other than that it's basically a little news block that has a predefined look and feel which far too much resembles a blatant advertisement.
I love Google AdSense, big fan, but at least with AdSense you can set colors and styles to match your own web site with these new web elements, ya get what ya get and they stand out like the proverbial turd in a punch bowl.
I like the idea of the interactive interface of the "next" and "previous" buttons, the layout of the news and the little highlight image is nice so they do look attractive, but by the looks of it, it'll only be attractive if your web site has a white background with light blue accent colors.
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