My Yahoo! Mobile RSS
Since I’m the resident “mobile blogger guy” here at Yahoo!, I got
asked if I’d do a quick write up on the Search blog about a new
interesting. My pleasure!
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In case you’ve ever used Yahoo!’s mobile portal and wondered where
your My Yahoo! page is, we’ve got great news. We’ve just launched a
new addition to Yahoo! Mobile which allow you to read the RSS news
feeds that you’ve subscribed to in your My Yahoo! page from your
mobile phone’s minibrowser.
Check it out: http://mobile.yahoo.com
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To see your My Yahoo! subscriptions, enter the above URL in your
phone’s WAP 2.0 minibrowser and navigate down to the News link. From
there click on My Headlines, log in with your Yahoo! ID and all the
RSS headlines that you’ve added to your My Yahoo! page are listed,
ready to be read on the go. Clicking on the individual feed links will
let you read a summary of the stories (about 1024 characters, which is
actually more than appears on the My Yahoo! Web version) and if you’ve
got a phone which has a browser that supports full HTML web pages,
each of the headlines will be live links to the original
article. Simple and easy.
The key to this new service is accessibility. What we wanted to do is
get a mobile version of My Yahoo! out there that works on millions of
phones, right this second. No installation required and you don’t need
a smart phone, third-party browser or a custom Java client to use
it. RSS feeds on a mobile phone is a no brainer, and using the phone’s
built in minibrowser is really the best way to deliver them. If you’ve
got a late-model phone, you can check out your feeds right now with a
minimum of fuss (and teach your Mom to do it too).
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For the mobile power users out there who want both more control over
their feeds and longer summaries (or even full posts), we hear
you. This launch is just the tip of the iceberg of what we’re
planning. Our ultimate goal is to make keeping up your feeds on your
mobile device as useful and as easy as it is on the desktop. We’re
starting simple, but thinking big. (When it comes to mobile, there’s
no other way to think!)
Even if you use another aggregator for your news (like myself),
there’s so many times when you want quick access to important news
items and don’t want to slog through hundreds of headlines on your
mobile phone to get to them. I’ve got over 300 feeds I’m monitoring
right this second, but not all of them are needed when I’m on the
go. So what I’m doing right now is going through my news feeds of my
primary aggregator and picking out some of the important ones that I’d
like to be able to quickly access when I’m moving, and adding them to
My Yahoo!. Using my phone’s bookmark feature, I can get to my mobile
RSS page within 15-30 seconds and be browsing the most important news
items right away, quickly and easily. Suddenly someone like myself who
hasn’t used My Yahoo! as much as he could, has a great reason to keep
it stocked with great feeds.
We’d love to hear how you’re using your My Yahoo! Mobile RSS and hear
about your favorite feeds to have while on the go. Leave a comment
below with your favorite links.
Russell Beattie
Mobile Yahoo!
I can’t sign-in in my Nokia 6600’s WAP browser or Opera. Is that because my account is Australian?
I have just tried entering http://mobile.yahoo.com into my Sony Ericsson P900 and the page will not load with the message ‘The page contains errors and can not be displayed’….. hmmmmm what am I doing wrong.
Hmmm does this work for smartphones? PocketPCPhones?
I can log in at mobile.yahoo.com but there’s no ‘My Headlines’ link when I click onto the news page. I’m in the UK and I’m using the Nokia 7200’s WAP browser.
In short – a RSS feed to WAP convertor. Nice.
Why can’t Yahoo mobile remember your name/password from the last time I logged in to Yahoo Mobile from my phone (Blackberry 7100t)?
It’s highly annoying to have to type username & password each time I want to use Yahoo Mobile to access my data .. and .. usually I’ll end up just using another service.
> I can log in at mobile.yahoo.com but there’s no ‘My Headlines’ link when I click onto the news page. I’m in the UK and I’m using the Nokia 7200’s WAP browser.
I’m having the same problem, here in New Zealand. I can access the News section and various types of news but not my RSS subscriptions which I have in my My Yahoo! page. I can’t see any “My Headlines” link as well.
Cannot sign my V3 Motorola phone.
This works great! Now I can get local news and all the obscure news when travel around! Now, if only I could do SyncML against my Yahoo! address book and calendar….
The mobile My Yahoo sounds like a great idea. Since My Yahoo doesn’t get discussed here very often and I can’t find a message board for it, I’d like to ask for a few features. I don’t use a separate RSS reader for my feeds. My requests apply to the regular My Yahoo WWW pages, not necessarily the WAP version, and are roughly in order of importance:
1. Saved Searches of my feeds. I would really like to be able to search only my feeds and then use those searches as feeds of their own. The Yahoo News search feeds are an outstanding implementation of a similar idea. I’d just like to narrow that down a bit.
2. Mark as Read. I would LOVE to be able to mark RSS articles and feeds in My Yahoo as read so they don’t show up when I go back to the page.
3. Highlight Recently Updated Sources. If Reuters:Business has been updated since my last session, highlight it. This goes hand-in-hand with #2.
4. More pages. My Yahoo currently only allows six pages. I’d like more than that.
5. Page Tabs. Add the ability to click a tab to navigate between each My Yahoo page instead of clicking the drop down box.
6. News Headlines/Images. On the current My Yahoo, you’re only allowed one lead photo. It would be nice to have a lead photo/headline for more than one category of news. This breaks things up a bit and makes the news easier to read. This would allow me to make the My Yahoo front page like a customized version of Yahoo News.
7. One column pages. I don’t use the second column on my sub-pages, so it’s just empty space. I’d like to be able to eliminate that empty space by using a single column.
8. Icons/Logos on the feeds. Put the feed’s icon or logo next to its name. Again – this breaks up the text and makes the feed more easily identifiable.
9. Digest View. It would be nice to have an easily changeable digest view, which would show all posts from every source in a single list, ordered from newest to oldest. Kinja does this, but not much else. A single click would toggle between digest view and the current source-based view.
You’ve made a really excellent product. It’s much better than any of the other web-based aggregators (Bloglines fonts are way too big!) A few improvements would make it perfect. I would be willing to pay to get these features. Thanks for listening.
Hi Russ,
If you want to try an alternative RSS mobile solution check out http://www.litefeeds.com It is now open to the public for free download & usage.
I am with a start-up that is developing mobile RSS ideas. We have taken a bit of a different approach in that we provide a Java(J2ME) applet that you can install over the air to your phone. Then just import your OPML to our website, choose the feeds you want mobile, and you are good to go.
We are also developing next generation mobile readers, and that is why we decided to go with Java instead of just WAP on the client. Right now you can clip and share articles, and the mobile feeds are cached, compressed, and optimized(large feeds truncated, unread/read only option, HTML stripped etc).
You must be excited about Yahoo!Mobile :) good to see Yahoo embracing RSS so extensively. Well, hope you can give litefeeds a try and give us some feedback. Would be much appreciated!
John Goodall
http://www.litefeeds.com
Thanks for the great feedback on the My Yahoo! Mobile RSS.
Couple of additional points that several people have commented on:
1) Mobile RSS is (currently) only available on Cingular, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, & T-Mobile xHTML capable browsers. Looking at support for other countries now, some issues we need to work through…
2) Persistent login is supported for most devices on US carrriers. Some handsets are configured to use alternative gateways (Blackberry I think is one, mostly on T-Mobile).
3) If the mobile.yahoo.com URL is not loading try going to wap.oa.yahoo.com…this the direct URL to the US WAP deck.
Hello!
There is also a site called http://www.wappymail.com/ which you can use to read your mails from your existing POP3, Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail email accounts.
I use the Yahoo mobile site for checking Yahoo mail and news with my Palm Tungsten C since I’m frequently near a WiFi hotspot. I now use the My Headlines to keep up on a number of blogs, too.
When trying this with a Treo 600 and AT&WS I can find the headline site, login, but then get a UI which tells me to go to my desktop to “Add Content”. I already have many RSS feeds in MyYahoo. Any guidance? I’m getting this error for both the http: and wap address
Please, please, provide SyncML (or OMA DS) synchronization with Yahoo Calendar and Address Book?
how to sign out mobile no from yahoo messenger
Any chances of getting yahoo mobile in New Zealand using the Vodafone network???. If so possible to get the settings
I can access My Yahoo on my Cingular phone. But, how do I access My Bookmarks that I have set up on the http://mobile.yahoo.com/ site?
So far, RSS shows a lot of potential for retail, but yet to flourish, although Im sure ebay / amazon would have a thing or two to say regarding this topic … anyway, I definately like the news syndications for my own personal use, just hoping that all the effort on these feeds will someday result in retail sales. Any comments or experiences?
Hey..Im from Norway.and have Nokia 3200.A while ago i used to get on yahoo messenger with my mobile..but now i cant..It says PAGE NOT FOUND..Its weird because i can open my email’s page and verything else..but not yahoo messenger..Can someone help me??
Can someone post how to make create a persistent login? I’m using MV220 with Microsoft C3 2003. It sure doesn’t seem automatic on this phone/OS.
All sounds good, but it doesn’t support SyncML it’s not a lot of use to me. Any plans on this?
Why don’t the fantasy sports links work? They all claim to be unavailable. Bummer.
Since I can only receive the “WML” version of the Yahoo! Mobile site on my Sharp TM150 (T-Mobile), which has the highest resolution of any non-smartphone at this time (320×240), it is highly annoying to only be presented with the standard black&white version of Yahoo! Mobile instead of the colorful xHTML version of Yahoo! Mobile, where many personal features show up that I do not have access to (Local, Images, Photos, RSS, etc.). So, although I have a cutting-edge color camera phone with a WAP 2.0 stack and xHTML browser, Yahoo! Mobile cannot tell them from querying my phone browser and just serves me the boring standard Yahoo! Mobile site. *sigh* oh well.
I also need a WAP address for the Yahoo Mobile Bookmarks page.
I use Cingular-Mmode. I don’t know if I have WAP 2.0.
I brought up this problem with Cingular-Mmode tech support, and they also didn’t know the address for the Yahoo Mobile Bookmarks page.
hi i am sameer uppal and i want to attach my mobile phone with my yahoo messenger but i am not getting any confirmation code on my mobile. please help me fast if you can my mobile number is 9814608001 service provider is spice punjab . thanks