In what is probably a major development in the RSS field, Yahoo has launched an RSS tool for it’s myYahoo pages. Pretty cool. It offers a couple of viewing options such as headline only or short summary, which Manila doesn’t seem to be able to offer. I know there has been some discussion lately about the pros and cons of full posts in and aggregator vs. just a short snippet, and I’m still not sure what side of that fence I’m on. I know that I rarely if ever visit someone’s site if I can read their full posts in the aggregator. In fact, about the only site that I do visit regularly, Josh Marshall, I do so because I don’t get his full feeds. Now there is really no reason for me to visit the site since the only thing that changes aside from the posts are the ads. (Maybe that’s why I only get the snippets…)
Anyway, at the very least this will give RSS a boost. The Yahoo FAQ on RSS is worth checking out too.
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