What I hate is My Yahoo!’s inability to recognize so many feeds, sometimes even those produced by Yahoo! properties. Either it outright refuses the feed proclaiming it not a valid feed or it just stops pulling content. For example, a friend has a blog. I was recently approach by another friend who was ranting about how funny some on this blog was. I was out of the know. I checked my My Yahoo! page containing friends’ blogs and saw there hadn’t been anything new on that feed for months. Thinking the feed had been changed, I resubscribed. In the process I saw there was lots of new content but guess what? My Yahoo! didn’t see anything for the past few months. I loaded the feed address into iGoogle, Netvibes, even the IE7 RSS reader and they all saw the recent content.

My other hate comes from the lag between when the content appears online and the time I get to see it on my dashboards. Maybe I’m asking a lot but six hours? Really?

Am I missing out on other good RSS aggregators? I’ve tried Bloglines and Google Reader. I’m not keen on the one-up list format. I love the panel layout that gives me more of an at-a-glance view.

A week after getting the phones (one each for mom, dad and daughter), we discovered mom had developed a talent for texting instead of calling. Woo hoo! This from someone who hated having to check her email more than once a week. Since then we’ve become better informed of our daughter’s activities (work, school, play, boys) and she ours.

But last night the there was a change in the life as we knew it as my wife opened up a Facebook account and started reaching out to school chums - all on her own.

That’s pretty kewl.

5:31pm Joe
And you can even chat across Facebook. weeeeee

5:38pm xxxxx
what?
omg
this is weird

5:38pm Joe
kewl eh?

5:38pm xxxxx
interesting…

5:39pm xxxxx
so this whole time i’ve been actually working when i come to work, but everyone else has been playing around on facebook???

5:39pm Joe
pretty much, yeah
you’re probably solely responsible for keeping your company afloat

5:41pm xxxxx
crap

 

NEW YORK, Jun 04, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — To help merchants drive footsteps and sales, Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) today announced the launch of the Yahoo! Circular Program, enabling retailers for the first time to deliver personalized newspaper circulars directly to consumers across the Yahoo! network based on their interests.

Comcast to acquire contact manager Plaxo - Yahoo! News

“Comcast is looking at Plaxo to become the social media backbone of its products.”

Maybe it will now just die and go away. I can only hope.

UPDATE: Sheesh, I forgot that Comcast doesn’t really understand what spam is. No wonder.

UPDATE 2: Marshall at ReadWriteWeb agrees and adds a good point about the lunacy of placing all your social media eggs in your ISP’s basket. About as silly as using your ISP for your primary email account.

It’s got to be a challenge when you’re someone of Lee’s level of online popularity. A challenge to not blow off those who wish to associate themselves with you, while at the same time choking off the noise they bring to the party so that you can actually benefit from the platform. Heck dealing with social media noise is even a challenge at my meager level of participation.

8:14:33 AM		System	Please hold and the next available agent will be with you shortly.
8:14:43 AM		System	Anthony has joined this session!
8:14:44 AM		System	Connected with Anthony
8:14:44 AM		Anthony	Thank you for contacting Sprint. My name is Anthony. How may I assist you today?
8:15:22 AM		Joe Beaulaurier	I recently discontinued my acct. Although my bank acct has been charged, I have no way to get the statement for the final billing.
8:16:20 AM		Anthony	One moment please I will look into this for you .
8:16:22 AM		Joe Beaulaurier	Can it be emailed to the email address on the account?
8:19:09 AM		Anthony	I apologize for the wait however I will be right with you .
8:23:59 AM		Anthony	On how long ago did you discontinue your account please?
8:24:20 AM		Joe Beaulaurier	two weeks ago.
8:24:49 AM		Anthony	One moment please let me see if we can still access it .

It’s 8:29 and I’m still waiting… meh.

If I were an animal, I would be a sloth
My best features are missing
My Celebrity look-a-likes are sad
What I’m most likely doing now flying under the radar
What I’ll most likely be doing in the future ducking and dodging
My hobbies include walking around with a rocket launcher on my shoulder
If I were a movie character, I would be unemployed
What’s most likely playing on my iPod iPod? I don’t want to be told where to buy my music. I have a Sansa
My nicknames are boring
Things I’m most likely to say uh, um, err, d’oh, meh
Something I can’t leave home without my car
The soundtrack of my life zzzzzzzzzzzzz
My style is lacking
My talents are missing