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Yahoo and RSSGnomedex 4
Scott Gatz
Y! News first to publish RSS
• First feeds - Aug 03
• Began with broad sectional feeds (Top Stories, World, etc.)
• Evolved to aggregated “topical” feeds (Elections, Middle East, Personal Tech, etc.)
• 75+ feeds today
• Promotion: – First from a “feeds” page– Now: most pages by loose
relevance
Now Yahoo! publishes tons of feeds
Yahoo! News ~75 feeds
Yahoo! Sports (feed for each team) Over 250 feeds
Editorial Sites: –Ask Yahoo!
–Buzz Index
–Yahooligans for Kids
–Education
~30 feeds
Yahoo! Groups Hundreds of Thousands
Over ½ million RSS feeds published
Launched RSS Beta Module for My Y!
Add to My Yahoo! popping up everywhere
craigslist
http://my.yahoo.com/s/button.html
The All-New My Yahoo!
Demo
More info at:
http://my.yahoo.com/s/about/new_migrate.html
Our users (and Y!) will thank you if you…
• Title your feeds well• Make your channel description…descriptive• Make item titles descriptive
– And include a description/summary
• Provide pubDate for each item• Use technology to make things easier on us
– Language field should not be “Windows” or “%bloglanguage%”– We check “last mod date” help us not fetch unnecessarily
– Ping us when you update
• Use Add to My Yahoo! buttons
URLs to check out
• FAQ for Publishers of RSS– http://my.yahoo.com/s/faq/rss/publishers.html
• Add Attendee’s Blogs to My Yahoo!– http://my.yahoo.com/s/gnomedex.html
• Info on the new My Yahoo!– http://my.yahoo.com/s/about/
Inbound – Political Blog Roundup
• Launched 8/26; needed as part of broad based Election coverage
• Plan is increase level of promotion as Election season crescendos.