Entries Tagged 'Yahoo' ↓

a star of “the new internet” and rightly so for many reasons. But it’s purchase and seeming mothballing of the wonderful blo.gs service is not one of them. Like many people, I use an RSS aggregator for my bulk blog-reading needs - but that does not in any way make blo.gs redundant. If I need to read a site for the text only, an RSS reader is great, but it still doesn’t replace the experience of reading in a browser - and I haven’t yet met an RSS reader that works as a simple notifier. But I’ve written about all of this before.

What’s amazing is that since last summer when the service effectively became only marginally usable, there has been no information forthcoming from Yahoo! or any of its notable bloggers about what’s happening with the service. If it’s going to live, I would think that a short word to that effect would be quite useful - if it’s going to die, then just kill it already.

I also want to ask: is there an alternative? Can any RSS reader be configured to store a simple list of recently updated sites and not present the posts themselves and everything but just a link to the front of the blog that has been updated? What options are there to duplicate this dying service? And am I crazy for wishing there were?

in the last few days was the acquisition of del.icio.us by Yahoo! that was announced on Friday.

I found (well, plasticbag.org found it and then I went and read it too) the first intelligent, non-reactionary response to the Flickr/Yahoo sign-in flap: Flickr and Yahoo: please support open identity standards.

I still wonder where the FAQ is about the change…

mikel.org still using the blo.gs update service? Since Yahoo! took over I have noticed some strange problems, and I wonder if anyone else has noticed them. First, every so often blo.gs refreshes and the site names with apostophes are rendered incorrectly using escape codes. Also, and more importantly, I see a lot of “ghost” updates, by which I mean a site listed that has not really updated. I know that it happens spontaneously, because it lists my site as having been updated when nothing has changed.

Can anyone shed any light on what’s going on?

in the wonderful world of weblog infrastructure. One of the best services out there, blo.gs, has been acquired by Yahoo! as of today. The service blo.gs provides has largely been eclipsed by the buzz around RSS, but it’s just as valuable. I like RSS for the quick access it gives you to information from multiple sources, but weblogs aren’t just about the information - and that’s where blo.gs (and BlogTracker before it) come in. Weblogs are a much richer environment than any RSS feed can convey - and only by going to the sites themselves can you really capture that.

Flickr has been acquired by Yahoo. I bet a lot of people are going to be negative about this, but not me. I prefer a wait and see approach. But I will say that I bet Aaron never imagined he’d work for Yahoo!