October 15, 2004
My Yahoo RSS Slides and Audio from Gnomedex
As Nancy
mentioned a few weeks ago, some of us attended Chris Pirillo’s
I had the chance to demonstrate the new My Yahoo beta that we
just days before, as well as our larger commitment to RSS.
Several people have asked for a copy of the slides I used for my
presentation, so
they are. The audio stream is available now too.
Thanks for all the feedback during that weekend. We had a great
time at the conference.
Scott Gatz
Geez here it is over three weeks since I couldn’t upgrade my yahoo! and you guys are just yammering on about how great this RSS thing is.
SBC/My Yahoo! customers still are not allowed to upgrade. Sounds like there may be some serious technical issues or Yahoo! just doesnt care as much about its paid business.
I think its one thing to voluntarily sign up and pay for 2nd rate service, but the poor my yahoo customers who just happened to be SBC/DSL cusomters got this thing foisted on us with no appreciable benefits. Yahoo is not doing a very good job at partnering with the service provider. It should be an enhancement not a detriment and at minimum Yahoo should allow those poor saps stuck with SBC/My Yahoo! the opportunity to opt out of the deal and go back to being just plain old regular my yahoo accounts.
Ive seriously been thinking of dropping SBC DSL for a cable modem and VOIP exactly what SBC does not want. At least then I wouldnt be treated like a lepper over at Yahoo!. I wonder if then I could go back to being a non-SBC account.
Just my two cents.
Tom
How about just being honest and post something, like Bob… you know.. that lame old Executive Vice President over at SBC won’t let us flip the switch.
Actually, we did respond to your earlier comment in the Trends at the Web 2.0 Conference post but will paste in here in case you did not see it:
http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000034.html#comments
Thomas — we hear your frustrations, however, it is important to note that the service is a beta, which means that we are continuing to work out the kinks.
We are planning on rolling out the My Yahoo! enhancements to our SBC Yahoo! members before the end of the year. This is consistent with how we always looks to extend service improvements to our SBC Yahoo! members. This allows both Yahoo! and SBC to make sure the service works well and is virtually bug free.
I understand that the product is in beta and am not asking you to release it as a finished product to the SBC/My Yahoo customers. I’m asking you to allow access to the beta like everyone else. It goes without saying that with any beta their are kinks to work out and this is expected.
Why not let SBC Yahoo members also participate in the beta? Why exclude them until final release. And why not address my desire to go back to being a non SBC Yahoo! customer? Why are you forcing me into the SBC Yahoo package when I don’t want it? What are the benefits to me to be in the SBC package?
I’m totally fine with you rolling out this service when it is out of beta and bug free to the SBC clients but you are not protecting me by disallowing me to try out the beta.
I write about media and technology and by excluding me from the service you are prohibiting me from reviewing the service and panning or praising it’s capabilities.
Please explain your logic for forcing people on a free service into a second rate paid service just because they happen to be using SBC for DSL? If I drop SBC and go with a cable modem will I be able to migrate my data over to a non-SBC/My Yahoo account?
It only rubs salt in it when you guys keep saying every other day how great the beta is.
Yep… just what I thought… silence. How about pointing me to some instructions on how to go back from being a SBC/My Yahoo! customer to a regular My Yahoo! customer.