my.Yahoo beta-testing RSS support.

N/C (see my earlier notes today on this subject) -- BB

Third-party aggregrators watch out, an old-school portal is on the verge of supporting RSS in a big way. Jeremy Zawodny introduces the approach, featuring a respectful robot and including support for weblogs.com-style pinging (http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2) as well as a RESTful URL/bookmark approach (http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping?u=http://rss.lockergnome.com/) ) for faster spidering.

8:25:32 PM    

Customers can subscribe to RSS feeds via My Yahoo!

As noted in the previous post, this may be a way for your customers to get your newsletters without email and without adding a new piece of software to their systems. Should work from behind firewalls, too. It would be better if you could get customers to install a newsreader that didn't require using a browser to read feeds, but this is a good alternative. All they need do is add a free Yahoo account (which many of them may have already). -- BB

My Yahoo! RSS Beta Launched. Finally! Better late than never, congrats to Jeremy and the team!

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It's been under development and testing for a while (it even tried to sneak out recently) and is now ready for you to play with. Now you can add nearly any RSS feed to your My Yahoo page. That includes news sites, weblogs, searches, and more. Think of this as the natural evolution of one of the oldest web-based news aggregators.

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11:31:01 AM    

Another report about spam filters blocking legit email.

Just add this to the growing list of problems with email. Note that Yahoo's RSS module is now in beta, so it may be possible for customers to easily subscribe to an RSS feed of your electronic newsletter and other customer communications. I will post an entry on this directly. -- BB

40% of legitimate email not going through

a recent article highlights an alarming trend.  Thanks to our spam friends, legitimate uses of email are being squeezed into non-existence.  We use email all the time to notify team members of new project activity.  I've notice lately that more and more spam filters are blocking our notifications even though team members want to be notified.  I'm guessing that RSS feeds might be the answer but am willing to consider other ideas...

11:25:41 AM