My Yahoo hits the sweet spot!

March 10, 2007 by Vinny Lingham

My Yahoo has always been my preferred feed reader - to the angst of most of my friends. Honestly though, I’ve played around with Google Reader and many others, and I always come back to My.Yahoo.Com. I’ve been waiting for ages for them to do a decent upgrade - and I have been extremely impressed by the most recent one. IMHO it’s the best feed reader out there, complete with all the AJaxy coolness you come not to expect from Yahoo!

I have over 100 feeds that I skim over daily, and the new version makes it effortless to do! Give it a try and tell me what you think!

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Eric Edelstein Says:
March 10, 2007 at 9:31 pm

I’ve been using google reader for awhile, and although it’s not bad, will give yahoo a try to see if i think it’s better than google.

anyone using non web based readers, as thinking of giving them a try as well?

Vinny Lingham Says:
March 10, 2007 at 9:38 pm

I actually use NetNewsWire to download feeds when I’m travelling, and read them on the flights - that’s the only reason I’d use an offline reader.

Eric Edelstein Says:
March 10, 2007 at 11:31 pm

I’ve been using google reader for awhile, and although it’s not bad, will give yahoo a try to see if i think it’s better than google.

anyone using non web based readers, as thinking of giving them a try as well?

Vinny Lingham Says:
March 10, 2007 at 11:38 pm

I actually use NetNewsWire to download feeds when I’m travelling, and read them on the flights - that’s the only reason I’d use an offline reader.

Rhianna Says:
March 11, 2007 at 6:28 am

To tell the truth, I have not used a feed reader.
I usually go to http://www.newsnow.co.uk/ — it’s pretty good in terms of current events. Do you personalize your “My Yahoo” to subscribe to blogs and things like that?

Vinny Lingham Says:
March 11, 2007 at 6:55 am

I actually only use My Yahoo to subscribe to feeds, any pretty much nothing else.

Rhianna Says:
March 11, 2007 at 8:28 am

Vinny Lingham Says:
March 11, 2007 at 8:55 am

I actually only use My Yahoo to subscribe to feeds, any pretty much nothing else.

Eric Edelstein Says:
March 11, 2007 at 12:07 pm

been thinking about changing to apple. but not quite there yet…
any suggested offline news readers for pc?

Vinny Lingham Says:
March 11, 2007 at 1:04 pm

The view on Apple Mac is simply this: “You’re going to do it sooner or later, you may as well do it now.”

I recommend the NetNewsWire - not sure if they have a PC version.

Eric Edelstein Says:
March 11, 2007 at 2:07 pm

been thinking about changing to apple. but not quite there yet…
any suggested offline news readers for pc?

Vinny Lingham Says:
March 11, 2007 at 3:04 pm

The view on Apple Mac is simply this: “You’re going to do it sooner or later, you may as well do it now.”

I recommend the NetNewsWire - not sure if they have a PC version.

Linda Buquet Says:
March 11, 2007 at 3:12 pm

Hey Vinny, I was afraid to tell anyone but MyYahoo is MyFav too!
Like you, I’ve tried them all and I just like it the best.

Lately though there have been numerous times when it can’t grab my feeds and they come up empty - server overload I guess. So I’ve started using NetVibes as a back up. NV is cooler and more web 2.0 but Yahoo is just plain easier to skim and easier to read.

Vinny Lingham Says:
March 11, 2007 at 3:57 pm

Haha - yeah, honestly, I agree. The previous wasn’t as cool, gave lots of server timeouts (one weekend, a few months ago, it refused to load any feeds!), and it just looked too simple.

Then they added the mouseover content blurb and eventually migrated to this version which I love! Simply, Elegant, Quick & Easy all in one!

Vinny Lingham Says:
March 11, 2007 at 4:19 pm

Funny thing is that Steve Rubel disagrees with me!

http://www.vinnylingham.com/2007/03/my-yahoo-hi...

Linda Buquet Says:
March 11, 2007 at 5:12 pm

Hey Vinny, I was afraid to tell anyone but MyYahoo is MyFav too!
Like you, I’ve tried them all and I just like it the best.

Vinny Lingham Says:
March 11, 2007 at 5:57 pm

Haha - yeah, honestly, I agree. The previous wasn’t as cool, gave lots of server timeouts (one weekend, a few months ago, it refused to load any feeds!), and it just looked too simple.

Then they added the mouseover content blurb and eventually migrated to this version which I love! Simply, Elegant, Quick & Easy all in one!

Olivier D. alias ze kat Says:
March 11, 2007 at 6:05 pm

I’m not feel this judgement :o| .oO(we need new way for RSS)

Vinny Lingham Says:
March 11, 2007 at 6:19 pm

Funny thing is that Steve Rubel disagrees with me!

http://www.vinnylingham.com/2007/03/my-yahoo-hits-the-sweet-spot.html

Owen Says:
March 11, 2007 at 6:22 pm

Speaking of Macs, the new My Yahoo page doesn’t like my Mac browser–BonEcho, the Mac-optimized version of Firefox. When I change the UserAgent string setting in about:config, My Yahoo lets me in. Aren’t we past User Agent sniffing by name?

Vinny Lingham Says:
March 11, 2007 at 7:12 pm

Good question, Owen! I do know that Yahoo tends to do a lot of user-agent sniffing (for example, it tells people to change the search box from Google to Yahoo!). I don’t think it’s a bad thing overall, as in many cases it improves the user experience, but I would say that in your case, if they don’t have a custom page for your browser, they should serve a default Mozilla page as it is Mozilla based.

Olivier D. alias ze kat Says:
March 11, 2007 at 8:05 pm

I’m not feel this judgement :o| .oO(we need new way for RSS)

Owen Says:
March 11, 2007 at 8:22 pm

Vinny Lingham Says:
March 11, 2007 at 9:12 pm

Gordon Choi Says:
March 12, 2007 at 12:36 pm

I’m not using a Mac yet, so I’ll stick with Google Reader for another while as my preferred feed reader.

Gordon Choi Says:
March 12, 2007 at 2:36 pm

I’m not using a Mac yet, so I’ll stick with Google Reader for another while as my preferred feed reader.

Paul Jacobson Says:
March 16, 2007 at 7:08 pm

I use a Mac and started out with NetNewsWire a while ago. I started using Google Reader and stuck with it since the new version came out in beta and it was great until I decided to try NetNewsWire again about a week or two again for some reason. Now, I won’t go back to Google Reader despite the fact that I love Google products.

NetNewsWire is faster (as a desktop version should be) and I find I have more screen space available to see my feeds more clearly.

By the way Vinny, the Windows equivalent of NNW is FeedDemon, also sold by Newsgator.

Paul Jacobson Says:
March 16, 2007 at 9:08 pm

NetNewsWire is faster (as a desktop version should be) and I find I have more screen space available to see my feeds more clearly.

By the way Vinny, the Windows equivalent of NNW is FeedDemon, also sold by Newsgator.

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