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Remembering MyYahoo

February 12th, 2007 | Category: Web Tools

I accidently went to my old MyYahoo portal, and wow, that triggered some memories

I was at Syndicate SF in Dec 2005. Yahoo touted that the top feedreader in North America (or was it world) was MyYahoo. I used to use MyYahoo, then I switched to Google IG, tried out Bloglines, and am very pleased with Google Reader.

Yahoo was so gung ho about RSS and Syndication but since that December then I’ve not seen any large innovation in the product. I believe they’ve had the ability to change styles and background, and some layout changes but it’s no where near the direction that Google Reader went. I noticed that Yahoo Mail Beta has pulled in some of the feeds, but the experience is no where near what Google Reader is like. Check out all the features that Google Reader can do. According to my Feedburner (which I’m not sure how accurate it is) stats MyYahoo is only used by 8% of my readers.

I’m still a fan of Yahoo, so much that I purchased the stock (which has not done well for me) I really look forward to Yahoo stepping up by releasing a worldclass feedreader, I will be happy to tout it’s success.

4 Comments so far

  1. Nick Dynice February 12th, 2007 4:48 pm

    Thats funny. Ther is MyYahoo, now there is YahooPipes, but nothing in between.

  2. jeremiah_owyang February 12th, 2007 5:43 pm

    YahooPipes, yup intersting, but it’s really not for the average web user. Yup, nothing in between.

  3. Web Strategy by Jeremiah » The Feed Filter wars begin: Adobe, Yahoo, Google Reader, Bloglines. (and what I want as a user) February 18th, 2007 7:13 am

    […] I’m pleased to see that Adobe has moved closer to creating internet applications in addition to their amazing web suites. myFeedz was launched and is a filter. Yahoo launched their filter called Pipes a few weeks ago, (as I remember the antiquated myYahoo) which I’m starting to see a few examples emerge here and there, such as this interesting feed of Upcoming events of a trusted network […]

  4. Web Strategy by Jeremiah » Lunch 2.0 at Yahoo February 22nd, 2007 1:29 pm

    […] The community that gathered had the opportunity to meet with some great product teams from Yahoo Publisher Network, MyBlogLog (which I use), and Yahoo Pipes group. There were some interesting conversations (a few pushbacks). I learned that MyBlogLog doesn’t pull reader data, and apparently “RSS never took off”. (and in some ways, I agree) I was able to cruise to the cafeteria and cafe, and check out this building, I’ve not been there since 2003, it was really a blast from the past. […]

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