You would have noticed the new Gmail Atom Feed. Here’s how to make it useful:

If you are using Mozilla Firefox, (and you should) there exists a great extension called Sage that can automagically read and format your feeds. It works with RSS 1 and 2 and Atom Feeds, so you can import pretty much any kind of feed content you have. The nice thing in the current context though is that it works perfectly with Gmail. Add the feed to Sage, click on it and viola! voila! Mail notification in a much cooler way 🙂