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Yahoo Email + RSS Integrates Blogs
yapplejax writes "In the new war of the Internet based applications, Yahoo is testing creating an email folder as the hub for RSS instead of using a web page for the feeds. " I've long thought this was the best way to do it- I've used web and application RSS readers for years, and email clients are simply a better interface.
Don't think I've ever seen CmdrTaco reply in comments, but I'd love to hear his reasons for this. I've gone the hardcore geeky route with rss2email and also the true standalone desktop aggregator route. What I've settled on is Bloglines, because I use 4 machines in different locations quite frequently. Bloglines simply makes this easiest and maintains state perfectly between all 4. I'm on win2k, XP, and OSX on those 4 machines. The Bloglines notifier extension for Firefox is quite handy as well.
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Another good read: "The Problem With RSS Readers Inspired By Outlook"
Give me a local machine (which is to say non-spyware) version of this and I might just be interested because then my RSS choices don't automatically associate me with any particular group in the corporate and/or government mindsets. For example, if a particular RSS feed is read frequently by a known terrorist, I am also then to be associated with a known terrorist?
No thanks, I'd rather be invisible and local.
...Open Source isn't the only answer -- but it's almost always a better value than the alternatives...
Hmmmph.... news? Thunderbird does RSS just fine, and displays the blog page to boot.
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I use Onfolio to read read and go over my RSS feeds. It integrated with Firefox, so I can make use of all the Firefox extensions when browsing the feeds.
I don't think using an email client to read RSS feeds is the best choice. The best choice is having the RSS reader generate a 'newspaper-style' webpage that lists all the latest posts in a certain feed folder.
Using an email client for news reading is so 1999. You'll have to click on each headline to know what the content is all about in the preview pane. Using the newspaper-style, you can just skim over posts very quickly, while not only having the headline, but the content too. Using the space bar key, you just go down page by page.
You know, the number of times bloggers try to turn blogging into something more like Usenet, you'd think eventually they'd figure it out and go back to Usenet.
The next Cmdr Taco duplicate will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and see it early!
So we're back to Usenet... finally!
Has anyone else noticed the trend to read RSS of blogs/forums in an application window- is rather similar to basic old Usenet of old?
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Mmm.. no. The market as a whole dropped yesterday, supposedly because of inflation fears.
i used to respect Yahoo back in the early 90's , now they are just another desperate american advertising company
Well, they are American. I suppose that's good cause to loathe them, if that's your thing. But lately Yahoo has been changing quite a bit. Perhaps you haven't noticed, but after they purchased Flickr, they've been "flickrizing" their apps at a fairly rapid clip. They're overhauling the interfaces to their key apps. Some of their beta apps are work very well and are a pleasure to use. It's easy to add new Yahoo services without getting tied into any Passport-like crap. You can use the apps you like and disregard the ones you don't like.
They're not first to market, but they're restructing their whole approach to provide regular non-geeks the opportunity to exchange information, establish online communities, create their own blogs, and so on. It's not the Google approach, which is tool-centric. Yahoo is remaking itself as what AOL could have become if it had any brains. As for being an "advertising company" maybe you haven't compared Google web apps to Yahoo web apps lately.
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