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matt is one of my favorite people at yahoo…and, now he’s working for a couple of other great yahoos (chad and bradley) as part of the yahoo developer network .

i don’t have time to do a longer post…so….congrats to matt and to yahoo! and, just to cap it off with something visual - here’s a “devilish” photo of matt that i took a month or so ago.

being an ex-isyndicate emp, not sure how i feel about this… :)

glad we’re not seeing this type of advertising from startups these days…

[UPDATE: here’s a post from today (11/6/06) that talks about what feedburner is doing with FIM’s springwidget platform. we started talking with FIM recently and both worked furiously to launch a “branded” rss flash widget for our 275k publishers…]

thanks to pete for pointing this out. myspace has a new widget platform that delivers content and applications to the desktop and the web (via flash)…this is a very very big deal…

yahoo, aol, and msft introduced the masses to email and IM. but, myspace trained a generation to track people via subscriptions. extending this to RSS is a natural thing to do and a potential game changer. i’ll go out on a limb and say that this is more important (in terms of content consumption / RSS adoption) than the new yahoo mail beta and/or IE7…

here’s a screenshot of one widget on FIMlabs’ myspace page - note the ability to play videos after clicking on items in the feed - very cool…

make your own jackson pollock - very cool and addictive…

this is a big deal - google is going to offer customizable start pages as part of their standard g apps for domains service….i.,e all publishers using this service, not just strategic partners…

garrett rogers speculated about this new offering last week and then confirmed it today (via google blogoscoped and steve smith)…

publishers will be able to control the layout, colors, header/footer, default content, and the content directory. publishers can even lock-down modules.

last, but definitely not least, publishers can tie their google apps and adsense accounts together to make money off of searches.

this should be great for publishers, rss in general, and of course, google. curious to see how this will impact newsgator and yahoo. especially in the mid-tier and low-end market segments…newsgator is pushing private label rss offerings and yahoo is doing anything it can to win the start-page war.

while i wonder how many end-users will use these custom aggregators instead of just going to google ig or my yahoo, etc., it has a chance. here at feedburner, we’re just happy to see rss apps get more broadly adopted :)