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Roll Your Own Yahoo! News RSS Feeds

Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 8, 2003 @02:23AM from the smooshing-things-together dept.

An anonymous reader submits "O'Reilly Developer News is reporting that one of Yahoo's employee's has hacked together a way roll your own Yahoo! News rss feed. Jeremy Zawodney, said hacker, is also an editor of Linux Magazine. News search over RSS is a feature Googlites have been pining for. It's interesting that Yahoo has, in a round about way, beat them to the punch on this one."

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Re:Buggy by phlyingpenguin · 2003-10-08 03:23 · Score: 2, Insightful

Though I just did it again and it's working right with "sco linux" - and several of his examples are multiword. Still, it isn't very reliable, I get quite a few 404s (as the comments in his blog suggest)
Re:Not worth effort by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-08 04:38 · Score: 1, Insightful

RSS is too concentrated, has too much potential for usefulness, and is too adfree. It's the wet dream of everybody who learnt to know that port 80 protocol before the web crossed the 50/50 ratio between screenspace for adverts and information.