My Yahoo! Is Experimenting with an Aggregator
for their personalized portal. To add it, go to: http://add.my.yahoo.com/rss/.
I just installed it in my Yahoo! portal. You can specify whether you want the feeds to show a headline only or a summary, too; how many items from each source you want on the screen at a time (1-10); and specify the time frame of the items (from today to one week). It looks like you can’t customize that for each feed, though. It currently only allows 25 sources. To subscribe to a feed, you can enter a keyword, site URL, or RSS feed URL. It seems really easy to use and has some sweet features.
It’s a beta version and seems to still have some quirks.
I’m having problems getting it to find the feed for the Thursday meetings blog. I figured putting in the URL for the feed would just give me the feed, which is what I did to another blog I just subscribed to without any problems. Instead, the results came up looking like everything that’s in that blog’s aggregator. Entering the URL for that blog received the same results. I tried a keyword search for that blog without luck. I also tried getting to the feed by subscribing to my blog, which has the Thursday meetings feed in its aggregator, but only came up with my blog instead of everything in my aggregator. Weird.
Addendum 1/27: Jenny Levine reports on her experience using My Yahoo!’s aggregator.
I think a lot of people’s evaluation of it varies based on what aggregator(s) they already use. My aggregator doesn’t allow me to mark posts to delete or save them, so not having that feature isn’t a big deal to me. Jenny’s disappointed that My Yahoo! doesn’t have it. She keeps observing that it’s an aggregator for casual users only because of its limited features. (Jeez, even I subscribe to more than 25 feeds.)
