Well, it’s about time. Yahoo recently launched an RSS aggregator, and it’s not bad. It allows me to have my favorite feeds right on the My Yahoo home page, which has been my home page for a few years now. Once they get the glitches out, I hope Yahoo pushes the envelope in terms of user interface. Given their success with consumer-focused services, I have high hopes.
This is a very important step. Now it’s only a matter of time before MSN, AOL, Earthlink etc. jump on the bandwagon. Which means that my prototypical mainstream user – aka my mom – will very likely be using RSS regularly sometime in 2005. Woo hoo!