I’m addicted to Google Reader and miffed about Yahoo Bookmarks Beta.

November 16, 2006 in pretty darn cool, technology with 3 Comments

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For several years, I’ve loaded my My Yahoo home page with RSS feeds of sites & blogs that I frequented. When I gave Google Reader a spin, I was surprised how cool the interface was. I then took all of my feeds and added them to Google Reader and now I’ve pretty much dumped My Yahoo altogether. It seems to me that Reader updates the feeds a lot quicker than Yahoo does, which , in general, is true about Yahoo and Google for just about everything. Google: plain and fast, Yahoo:rich and slow.

Another reason I’ve stopped using My Yahoo: Yahoo released their next generation Yahoo Bookmarks Beta. I relied on the old Yahoo Bookmarks heavily. Bookmarks Beta is not available to add as a My Yahoo module. Who knows when it will be. Ticked me off. The only thing I miss from My Yahoo is the sports scores and the lead news photos. Everything else I have on my personalized Google Home Page.

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3 Responses to “I’m addicted to Google Reader and miffed about Yahoo Bookmarks Beta.”

  1. Tom Chi December 4, 2006 at 7:13 pm #

    Sorry about the MyYahoo bookmarks module problems… we have a couple moving parts and they’ll be sorted in the near future. If you don’t want to wait, we have a potential workaround if you contact me.

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  2. wvpv December 5, 2006 at 7:59 am #

    My wife was just telling me last night that she missed my My Yahoo page.

    I’ll do just that.

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  1. Tom Chi & Me at sprignaturemoves.com - December 7, 2006

    [...] Tom Chi & Me Posted 12/7/06 at 12:39 pm in pretty darn cool and software & websites. An entry I posted on my blog back on 11/16 apparently caught the eye of Tom Chi, Product Lead for Yahoo!’s MyWeb (and Bookmarks Beta apparently). In my I’m addicted to Google Reader and miffed about Yahoo Bookmarks Beta post I expressed my frustration with there not being a My Yahoo module for the new Yahoo Bookmarks beta. One day I signed in and it just didn’t work anymore. Tom posted this comment on that particular post:Sorry about the MyYahoo bookmarks module problems… we have a couple moving parts and they’ll be sorted in the near future. If you don’t want to wait, we have a potential workaround if you contact me.Anyway, I did and we exchanged several e-mails. He provided a custom RSS feed for me to add my beta bookmarks back to My Yahoo. Pretty sweet. [...]

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