On her blog, Forrester's Charlene Li reports on Yahoo's latest foray into RSS....
1) Yahoo! Alerts will now be RSS enabled. This means that when a new item is posted to a feed, a Yahoo! user can have the post be sent as an Alert to email, Yahoo! Messenger, or via SMS to a mobile phone...
2) The new Yahoo! Mail beta will also be RSS enabled. Users can add feeds directly into the Mail interface, or if they have feeds already set up in My Yahoo!, they will automatically replicate within Mail...
...And good news on the Yahoo! Mail beta – Yahoo! said that they would be starting to pull people off the waiting list “soon” and “slowly”. So if you haven’t already, sign up for the beta!
So... cool. More RSS stuff to play with. And is it just me, or did Yahoo! actually beat Google to the punch with this one? (I'm on decongestants today, so I could be wrong.)
UPDATE: Here's an article from the Washington Post on the new Yahoo features.
The last couple of weeks have seen Yahoo out-Google Google in several ways - the Yahoo RSS strategy seems to be working much better and generating much more buzz than the new Gmail RSS "web clips," for example. And I've read that Yahoo is now buying up del.icio.us, the super-popular social bookmarking service. I love the fact that I can now get RSS alerts through Yahoo - or, at least, that I'll be able to get them once Yahoo switches my mail account over to the new beta (hurry, Yahoo!).
Posted by: Easton Ellsworth | December 09, 2005 at 10:48 PM