RSS Basics - Information Trapping: Real-Time Research on the Web - page 38

he advantage of using My Yahoo as an RSS feed reader is that Yahoo has
gone out of its way to make the feed reader pleasant and easy-to-use. And if
you're using the site anyway, it's easy to seamlessly integrate reading your
RSS feeds into your usual routine.
here are some drawbacks, however. Yahoo seems to list only ive entries
from an RSS feed at a time, and lists only the titles, not the descriptions of
the articles. So while you may see a lot of entries on the My Yahoo page, they
won't be as informative as smaller pages, which include entry descriptions
and more than ive feed entry titles at one time.
Figure 2.21
you can browse for,
search for, or add your
own RSS feeds to
My yahoo.
client-side rSS feed readers
If you work mainly on one computer and you don't want to trust your feeds
to a Web-based application, then a standalone, or “client-based” RSS feed
reader, is the better choice. A standalone RSS feed reader is sotware that
doesn't integrate or extend a program—instead it “stands alone” to deliver
RSS feed managing and reading.