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Re: My Yahoo hits the sweet spot!

Paul Jacobson — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:08:55 -0000

I use a Mac and started out with NetNewsWire a while ago. I started using Google Reader and stuck with it since the new version came out in beta and it was great until I decided to try NetNewsWire again about a week or two again for some reason. Now, I won't go back to Google Reader despite the fact that I love Google products.

NetNewsWire is faster (as a desktop version should be) and I find I have more screen space available to see my feeds more clearly.

By the way Vinny, the Windows equivalent of NNW is FeedDemon, also sold by Newsgator.

Re: My Yahoo hits the sweet spot!

Gordon Choi — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 08:36:31 -0000

I'm not using a Mac yet, so I'll stick with Google Reader for another while as my preferred feed reader.

Re: My Yahoo hits the sweet spot!

Vinny Lingham — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 15:12:22 -0000

Good question, Owen! I do know that Yahoo tends to do a lot of user-agent sniffing (for example, it tells people to change the search box from Google to Yahoo!). I don't think it's a bad thing overall, as in many cases it improves the user experience, but I would say that in your case, if they don't have a custom page for your browser, they should serve a default Mozilla page as it is Mozilla based.

Re: My Yahoo hits the sweet spot!

Owen — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 14:22:41 -0000

Speaking of Macs, the new My Yahoo page doesn't like my Mac browser--BonEcho, the Mac-optimized version of Firefox. When I change the UserAgent string setting in about:config, My Yahoo lets me in. Aren't we past User Agent sniffing by name?

Re: My Yahoo hits the sweet spot!

oliezekat — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 14:05:31 -0000

I'm not feel this judgement :o| .oO(we need new way for RSS)

Re: My Yahoo hits the sweet spot!

Vinny Lingham — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 12:19:32 -0000

Funny thing is that Steve Rubel disagrees with me!

http://www.vinnylingham.com...

Re: My Yahoo hits the sweet spot!

Vinny Lingham — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 11:57:15 -0000

Haha - yeah, honestly, I agree. The previous wasn't as cool, gave lots of server timeouts (one weekend, a few months ago, it refused to load any feeds!), and it just looked too simple.

Then they added the mouseover content blurb and eventually migrated to this version which I love! Simply, Elegant, Quick & Easy all in one!

Re: My Yahoo hits the sweet spot!

Linda Buquet — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 11:12:32 -0000

Hey Vinny, I was afraid to tell anyone but MyYahoo is MyFav too! :-)
Like you, I've tried them all and I just like it the best.

Lately though there have been numerous times when it can't grab my feeds and they come up empty - server overload I guess. So I've started using NetVibes as a back up. NV is cooler and more web 2.0 but Yahoo is just plain easier to skim and easier to read.

Re: My Yahoo hits the sweet spot!

Vinny Lingham — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 09:04:15 -0000

The view on Apple Mac is simply this: "You're going to do it sooner or later, you may as well do it now."

I recommend the NetNewsWire - not sure if they have a PC version.

Re: My Yahoo hits the sweet spot!

Eric Edelstein — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 08:07:40 -0000

been thinking about changing to apple. but not quite there yet...
any suggested offline news readers for pc?

Re: My Yahoo hits the sweet spot!

Vinny Lingham — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 01:55:20 -0000

I actually only use My Yahoo to subscribe to feeds, any pretty much nothing else.

Re: My Yahoo hits the sweet spot!

Rhianna — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 01:28:49 -0000

To tell the truth, I have not used a feed reader.
I usually go to http://www.newsnow.co.uk/ -- it's pretty good in terms of current events. Do you personalize your "My Yahoo" to subscribe to blogs and things like that?

Re: My Yahoo hits the sweet spot!

Vinny Lingham — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 16:38:58 -0000

I actually use NetNewsWire to download feeds when I'm travelling, and read them on the flights - that's the only reason I'd use an offline reader.

Re: My Yahoo hits the sweet spot!

Eric Edelstein — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 16:31:05 -0000

I've been using google reader for awhile, and although it's not bad, will give yahoo a try to see if i think it's better than google.

anyone using non web based readers, as thinking of giving them a try as well?