Yahoo! Mail RSS feature is now public, and Associated Press notifies us with quite confusing article title “Yahoo Introduces E-Mail Folder”. RSS feeds added to My Yahoo! are now part of Yahoo! Mail, viewable directly in the mail interface. The feeds are not categorized by folders, but if you had several pages on My Yahoo!, the order of pages and feeds on those pages will be preserved.
Since the RSS feeds are not integrated into the Mail interface, you can expect some additional functionality added to each item - you can now forward and print distinct RSS items. Moreover, a simple right click adds a link to the item in the editor window of Yahoo! 360 blogging platform.
Social bookmarking is there as well - feed items with links can be added to Yahoo! MyWeb.
TechCrunch has a preview. Scott Gatz also points out you can save RSS items into Yahoo! Mail folders. There’s also a story at CNET News.com. Charlene Li from Forrester Research is thrilled. SoftTechVC doesn’t like the tight integration between Yahoo! Mail and My Yahoo! There’s also a SiliconBeat story.
do you have any idea when this mail interface is to go live (or when Y! will start sending out invitations for beta en masse)? I don’t care for most of it, but this RSS interface sounds _very_ interesting if done right. i’d love a centrally-accessible replacement for RSS Bandit!