A few folks (more) have experimented with Yahoo!'s new beta support for RSS feeds this week. Intrigued, I decided to spend a few minutes with Yahoo!'s implementation of RSS. Three things quickly became apparent: (1) The database their search queries isn't complete or up to date. I couldn't find WebBP and was able to add it only by providing the complete URL for the feed. (2) While the display format is consistent with Yahoo! News content, it does not appear to keep track of what you have read the way BlogLines and other RSS aggregators do. (3) If this takes off, it will motivate all of us to write better headlines. If I didn't know what I had written, I'd have little idea what each of these posts contained:
I've taken that to heart. So long, cute headlines (maybe).
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