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Yahoo Email + RSS Integrates Blogs

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the makes-sense-to-me dept.

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.

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  1. Bloglines is my answer by phildog · · Score: 5, Insightful
    >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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  2. Re:Search Technorati for '"river of news" email' by supton · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Another good read: "The Problem With RSS Readers Inspired By Outlook"

  3. I like the privacy of anonymity better by CodeShark · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Not to belabor the point, but why would I want a giant provider like Yahoo (or Google for that matter) to have any idea which RSS feeds I am getting?

    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.

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  4. Big Deal. Use Thunderbird by rueger · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hmmmph.... news? Thunderbird does RSS just fine, and displays the blog page to boot.

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  5. Getting there by ptomblin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

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  6. Full circle by commanderfoxtrot · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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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