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July 28, 2005
AOL launches MyAOL beta, Feedster to do RSS search
Om Malik today takes note of AOL's new partnership with Feedster for their new 'MyAOL' - as he notes, Yahoo must be thinking that's soooo 1999 ;-). Interesting to see a tool like this on AOL; bringing RSS closer to the massses...
"America Online is one step closer in its bid to transform itself from a dial-up ISP into a content powerhouse. The company has just announced MyAOL (it must be 1999, Yahoo people are thinking.) The most exciting part of the news is that they are taking RSS mainstream. Yup - right out of the elites into the AOLplanet. Yahoo, Ask Jeeves (via Bloglines) and supposedly Google are already making RSS part of their future, and now even AOL has signed up."
He also notes:
"The new site will also allow folks to subscribe and read RSS feeds. This is also a good day for RSS spammers, who can now find gullible clickers amongst the AOL hordes. Going back to that step-closer remark, they are still amillion miles away from where they need to be."
(Via Om Malik's Broadband Blog.)
Posted by jetrotz at July 28, 2005 09:21 AM
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