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:

1. Automatically pulls in the feeds I stored on My Yahoo!, which is nice. I like to stay organized
2. Reading is easy. All articles are viewed competely within the Mail interface, images included
3. I can choose to read one feed, or as I prefer to do, I can read all feeds intermingled chronologically
4. There is no count of how many new articles there are per feed, and in total across all feeds�
5. 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:

1. Yahoo! (Mail and My Yahoo!)
2. Trillian plugin
3. Microsoft Outlook
4. 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?