MSN Missed the RSS Boat

News.com tells us that Yahoo will start testing RSS support in MyYahoo. This report says that a public test date has not been set yet, but this much is clear. With Microsoft's release of the new MSN portal late last week, they completely missed the RSS boat. Not even the efforts of Robert Scoble were enough to convince MSN that they needed RSS support. Now, any addition of RSS to MyMSN will look like a “MeToo” feature.

I like Microsoft, don't get me wrong, but sometimes their slowness to react to things is downright frustrating. They had a chance to look like innovators in that field, and they blew it. Too bad.

2 Comments

  • Microsoft has always been about "Me Too" and they are rarely, if ever, true innovators. It won't matter if they are late with RSS as long as they release something pretty great. RSS is still mostly a geek's tool and the mainstream market has a long way to go before it is ready for RSS.

  • I think "Some Guy's" comments were very astute and right on, but you were right, too. (Why don't these, uh, guys use their real friggen' names?) I appreciate your willingness to speak your mind on matters pertaining to innovation and time to market. Keep up the good work.

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