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Yahoo and RSS Gnomedex 4

Yahoo and RSS Gnomedex 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

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Yahoo and RSS Gnomedex 4

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  1. Yahoo and RSS Gnomedex 4 Scott Gatz

  2. 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

  3. Now Yahoo! publishes tons of feeds Over ½ million RSS feeds published

  4. Launched RSS Beta Module for My Y!

  5. Add to My Yahoo! popping up everywhere craigslist http://my.yahoo.com/s/button.html

  6. Demo More info at: http://my.yahoo.com/s/about/new_migrate.html The All-New My Yahoo!

  7. 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

  8. 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/

  9. 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.

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