RSS is Now Integrated into Yahoo Mail and Alerts

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1. Steve
   

   November 29th, 2005 at 11:38 pm

   Very cool! thanks for the heads up.. now I might be able to make yahoo mail my start page instead of netvibes.com…
   maybe.

2. Drough
   

   November 30th, 2005 at 12:41 am

   C’ mon Google! Where’s your answer to this? And your calendar? WUZZUP? I need these features, dammit.

3. Giri
   

   November 30th, 2005 at 1:55 am

   In my opinion goowy should be best email application available with all its features. They do have a inbuilt RSS readers, widgets[delicious,flickr, technorati] and all those. Though i havent used the yahoo mail alpha, I still believe that goowy would be better(just my opinion). What do you expect of the microsoft’s live.com mail service??

4. Drew
   

   November 30th, 2005 at 2:15 am

   The decider for me on Yahoo is the fact that they plaster their email with advertisements. THey use the colorful, animated, explosively distracting kind, too. If they got a little Googlier and discreet in that area I’d give them a chance.

5. BillyG
   

   November 30th, 2005 at 3:00 am

   I went here looking for it but can’t find it (and I’ve had a Y! email account for years!

   http://alerts.yahoo.com/main.php?view=create

   Not only have they not publicized it, I can’t find it even after you say it finally went live, got a URL? TIA

6. sridhar
   

   November 30th, 2005 at 3:08 am

   I signed up for beta invitation long time back and still no news. When is it expected to be out?

7. John
   

   November 30th, 2005 at 3:37 am

   Hey Yahoo! Real nice but how about letting some paying customers actually USE this! WTF!

8. Charlie Wood
   

   November 30th, 2005 at 4:22 am

   Can anyone verify whether Yahoo Mail suppoorts secure (password-protected, encrypted) feeds?

   -c

9. Vinu
   

   November 30th, 2005 at 4:25 am

   when are they going to release the beta for public? I am tired of hearing these posts about this UI rocking and this feature sucking! c’mmon let the product out before the gas dies!

10. Ed Dunn
    

    November 30th, 2005 at 5:26 am

    Big deal. RSS Readers are nothing more than a commodity. Everybody has a RSS reader feature built in as they are very easy to create.

    The whole model/concept of users subscribing to RSS feeds is tired.
    Tagging is what I’m excited about. Tagging allow users to find headlines on topics that interest them from a wide diverse group of content contributors.

    I’m personally tired of certain partisan media outlets wanting to tell me what is going on in the world with their conservative/liberal slant. Thanks to sites like technorati, google news and my stuff, things are changing.

    I want a diverse group of news journalists, bloggers and everyday commenters to report on topics I’m interested in and I decide objectively.

11. Kyle
    

    November 30th, 2005 at 5:34 am

    Anyone know what the procedure is for getting into the Yahoo Mail Beta? Would really like to try it out.

12. Josh
    

    November 30th, 2005 at 8:41 am

    http://surveylink.yahoo.com/wix/p0473306.aspx

13. n3td3v
    

    November 30th, 2005 at 9:57 am

    Google is better. You’re all idiots.

14. Enric
    

    November 30th, 2005 at 10:17 am

    I don’t think they’ve put alerts for blogs up yet. I looked on the alerts page and there’s nothing for that. And when I emailed their help on when it’s going to be activate, they responded with a thank you for the feature recommendation.

15. sk15
    

    November 30th, 2005 at 10:22 am

    How can anyone say that yahoo mail is better than gmail, when its not even out for public consumption?

    ill make my decisions based on “my” experience with a product rather than some “blogger” (or a WSJ article for that matter), telling me what is good and what isnt.

16. Michael Arrington
    

    November 30th, 2005 at 11:03 am

    sk15 -

    I agree completely. Yahoo Mail needs to launch to the public. But it is extremely cool.

17. Randy Charles Morin
    

    November 30th, 2005 at 11:43 am

    It’s not fully live. I still get the old old stuff.

18. Easton Ellsworth
    

    November 30th, 2005 at 1:00 pm

    I can’t wait to see what this looks like. My guess is that most Yahoo! Mail users will ignore their new RSS folder at first, but that a good buzz might just get many of them to take notice. I’ve tried explaining RSS to my dad and I keep getting blank stares - anyone know where I could find a simple explanation?

19. Michael Arrington
    

    November 30th, 2005 at 1:37 pm

    Easton (#31) - Pluck has a good resource at http://www.pluck.com/rss/index.html. In the end, you’ll need to get him set up at My Yahoo or some other basic reader to understand its power.

20. Phil Hollows
    

    November 30th, 2005 at 1:38 pm

    Ah, and now the agenda behind last week’s “I don’t like orange” piece on FeedBlitz is clear. (Who, me, bitter?).

    So let’s see. This may be incrementally cooler for users (which users? better than what? earlier yahoo mail?) but it does nothing for RSS content *publishers* in terms of metrics, control or, say it is’t so, for users not in yahoo. That’s where FeedBlitz scores.

    Looking at the GUI they’re clearly treating RSS differently - and FWIW I think that’s dead wrong. It’s all information, the fact that it’s coming from a different source ought to be hidden from users, not thrust into their faces.

    This is simply the old MS strategy reinvented for the web - tie the readers into a single platform for all those ads (bear in mind who yahoo’s customer (as opposed to user) base is). Asking google to do the same asks them to take the same path (which is fine FWIW), but misses the point IMHO - RSS-based *applications* need to come to the forefront and RSS per se needs to disappear into the fabric of the Net; and publishers using RSS need to get their feeds into users hands regardless of the mail (or mobile or other application) client they’re using.

    Anyway. Is this what “web 2.0″ has become? We’re all supposed to get excited because another mail client from a large vendor adds RSS support?

    Perhaps I got out of bed the wrong side today, but if that’s the case it’s tragic.

21. Michael Arrington
    

    November 30th, 2005 at 1:43 pm

    Hi Phil,

    I have no idea where the feedblitz connection/my agenda comes in, but I disagree with your main point - that this isn’t exciting. Yahoo Mail now gives high end RSS reader capabilities along with a feature rich email client, all on the same dashboard. Like My Yahoo, tools like these will do much to drive RSS usage for mainstream users.

    Glad to see you are a regular reader now. Let’s talk about feedblitz and how it can be better offline.

22. Chris Jackson
    

    November 30th, 2005 at 2:44 pm

    This is all good and all - but I have a SBC/Yahoo DSL account - if i try to goto mail.yahoo.com i get redirected to my sbc/yahoo mail page instead. Dose any one have a direct link to the yahoo mail beta?

23. Easton Ellsworth
    

    November 30th, 2005 at 4:03 pm

    Thanks Michael. I’ve just posted about all this. The portal wars (Yahoo, Google, MSN, Ask, etc.) continue to intensify!

24. addy
    

    December 1st, 2005 at 1:26 am

    como descargo el programa no me da opcion

    el TECHCRUNC;S

25. karthik
    

    December 10th, 2005 at 6:27 pm

    now i wish for an import script to get all the feeds from my shrook account.

26. Michael Kraft
    

    December 14th, 2005 at 7:34 am

    I got access to the Yahoo Mail beta today and I have found the RSS feeds not to work at all.

    Basically I get a “There was a problem loading your feed list. Please contact Yahoo! Customer Care if the problem persists. [ERROR_INCOMPLETE]” error when trying to access the feeds through Yahoo! Mail.
    They show up fine on the My Yahoo page.

27. SRINIVAS
    

    December 16th, 2005 at 2:13 am

    Basically I get a “There was a problem loading your feed list. Please contact Yahoo! Customer Care if the problem persists. [ERROR_INCOMPLETE]” error when trying to access the feeds through Yahoo! Mail.
    They show up fine on the My Yahoo page.

28. SRINIVAS
    

    December 16th, 2005 at 2:28 am

    Gmail recently added an RSS reader to follow up Yahoo! Mail Beta’s RSS Reader. In this latest battle of the Great Email War of 2005, Google loses many soldiers. The town of Googletopia is pillaged and its women raped. Children run crying in the streets, screaming, “Why Kings Page and Brin have you forsaken us?” Blood stains the streets, neighboring citizens say a prayer for their lost brethren, and Yahoo! Generals eat heartily tonight. […]

29. judy wright
    

    December 26th, 2005 at 12:03 pm

    i love having yahoo.com and would like to have voice alert

30. saulter
    

    December 26th, 2005 at 11:01 pm

    I was wondering if anyone had an extra invitation for the Yahoo! mail beta?

31. breanna
    

    January 2nd, 2006 at 9:49 am

    how do i get beta yahoo mail?!?!

32. maha
    

    January 7th, 2006 at 10:24 am

    how can i get yahoo mail beta??

33. djfreq
    

    January 11th, 2006 at 2:05 pm

    i’m glad to see that Yahoo! is making some nice changes. Just looking at the UI it looks alot like the Zimbra project.

    I’ve 2 or 3 gmail addresses but the trouble of moving my main e-mail from yahoo was just too much after 9 years or so .. ( wow has e-mail been around that long?)

34. Jennifer
    

    January 14th, 2006 at 3:18 pm

    every time I go to get my mail and I look when I sent the message it gives me a different time than the time really is I live in Florida so please fix

35. Jennifer
    

    January 14th, 2006 at 3:20 pm

    see I just posted # 69 and the time really is 6:18pm and it says its 3:18pm I don’t know what to do and my time clock on my pc is right

36. Kiong
    

    March 15th, 2006 at 12:32 am

    When is the new Yahoo Mail gonna be released? I really can’t live without RSS feeds. Especially R-mail kept missing on some important links.

37. lulu
    

    April 4th, 2006 at 11:12 am

    How do i get yahoo mail beta without signing up, is there a way?

38. Hugh Hoffman
    

    April 14th, 2006 at 7:47 am

    I have tried to use My Yahoo and Alerts for an encrypted feed. When I try to Add Content, specifying HTTPS://xxx, My Yahoo appends HTTP:// to the front, resulting in HTTP://HTTPS://xxx, which of course fails. Without specifying HTTPS, I can’t access the feed. Is there a way around this? What would it take for Yahoo to fix this and support encrypted feeds like other online aggregators like NewsGator? Is there any other online aggregator that will convert RSS feeds to emails, preferably optionally (like Yahoo), so some feeds can be emailed and others just aggregated for online access?

39. AJAX RSS Feed Reader
    

    April 14th, 2006 at 7:15 pm

    Here http://www.yourlivewire.net/AJAX_RSS_Feed_Reader is yet another AJAX RSS Feed Reader which display RSS Feeds in draggable auto-arranging AJAX Feed Windows which self-update using AJAX as RSS Feed is updated.

40. srinath
    

    November 1st, 2006 at 7:53 pm

    i could not open my mail

41. Ted. B.
    

    December 7th, 2006 at 9:49 am

    I also use the RSS_Feed_Reader and would recommend it.

42. patrick
    

    December 10th, 2006 at 7:58 pm

    when i go to email and to send a email–it pops up, but there is no message box, to write email message. there is only a subject and to whom box..but where do i put message i want to send