New Yahoo embraces RSS
Yahoo! unveiled a new home page design and My Yahoo! page today, which looks a lot sharper, but the real news is how much Yahoo! is embracing RSS and Atom feeds. (Here's a tour of the changes.)
The site has been letting users add RSS feeds to My Yahoo! for a year or so as part of a Beta test, but today marks the big rollout.
Yahoo! has made it really easy to search and find feeds. This simple page lets you search for feeds by topic or provider, anything from blogs to news sites to services on Yahoo! The company says it's created a database of more than 150,000 choices. And once you find the sources you want, you simply click on the Add button and it's added to your My Yahoo! page. Very simple and well done.
Users can now also create custom modules based on a topic of interest, by leveraging Yahoo! Search technology and the thousands of sources available via Yahoo! News. For example, you can add a Yahoo! News search for election coverage to My Yahoo! to easily track the latest headlines.
The site is also encouraging the adoption of RSS by offering "Add to My Yahoo!" buttons to sites, which are now found on hundreds of pages across the Web, on sites as diverse as BoingBoing, The New York Times, and, yes, CyberJournalist.net (see left column or click here).
The company also launched a new page today (http://rss.yahoo.com) designed to help educate consumers about the benefits of RSS and related technologies. The page also provides Web publishers with information on how to distribute their content via RSS.
"We believe Yahoo! is in a unique position to help bring the benefits of technologies like RSS to mainstream consumers," said Geoff Ralston, chief product officer, Yahoo! Inc.
Indeed, Yahoo!'s move really does take RSS into the mainstream and sets the stage for much wider adoption.
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