Looks like Yahoo has done a much needed upgrade to their old my yahoo pages. I almost forgot about this feature as I didn’t really find a good use for them. The new version integrates a lot of nice AJAX and layout options. It is very similar to iGoogle but I think I like the layout of this one much better. Not that anyone really has a ‘home’ page anymore but I think that this is going to be my new home page from now on. Most of the modules they have are RSS based which I use Google Reader for but I like the UI design of the new pages. The only thing I was really using on iGoogle was the chat client which I now run as a stand alone using Prism. This seems to load a lot faster than iGoogle does and now that I have Plaxo syncing all my calendars and contacts this makes using Yahoo that much easier, plus all my mail forwards to my yahoo account as I think it is the most robust web based email out there. Gmail has some nice features (which is why I have a Gmail account as well) but I think as far as sending emails from the web Yahoo has the better model.
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So I finally found a use for Yahoo! Pipes. I created a pipe that takes the Digg RSS feeds and filters them down for pics only. Only works well for RSS feeds that have a lot of extra fluff when you only care about something very specific on that feed. Most of my feeds I like to read everything they post but Digg is a different story. Mainly because they post so many posts a day its crazy!
