Althought I’ve been using the Beta version of Yahoo! Mail for close to a year, I’ve only recently been trying out the feed reading feature. Normally, I use a plugin for Trillian to track my feeds and I read them natively on their respective sites. Here’s my thoughts on the Yahoo! Mail reader:
- Automatically pulls in the feeds I stored on My Yahoo!, which is nice. I like to stay organized
- Reading is easy. All articles are viewed competely within the Mail interface, images included
- I can choose to read one feed, or as I prefer to do, I can read all feeds intermingled chronologically
- There is no count of how many new articles there are per feed, and in total across all feeds�
- As a feed is read, it’s status is changed to “read”. It would be nice to have this be more granular, to the article level.
Last week I upgraded to Office 2007. Outlook now supports RSS feeds, which is great, and on initial glance I think I prefer it to the Yahoo! Mail interface, thought it is very similar. Here’s my dillemma though… I now have the same group of feeds tracked in four places:
- Yahoo! (Mail and My Yahoo!)
- Trillian plugin
- Microsoft Outlook
- PocketRSS for my Cingular 8525
All of them are out of sync as to my “read” status. Is there no way to ping a central service each time a feed is read so that I don’t have to read an article twice?
Dan, there’s no standard for tracking the read/unread state. About the only related functionality I can think of is OPML, which allows you to synchronize your subscription list (which feeds you’re subscribed to) but not the current read/unread state.
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