Yahoo Pushes Podcasting and RSS

During last week's Syndicate confab in San Francisco, Yahoo rolled out its podcast subscription service, a nifty tool for aggregating podcasts in one place. The service is a simply implemented specialized RSS reader, but shows how Yahoo is staying in front of the content syndication race.

Silicon.com has a lengthy webcast interview with Yahoo's Scott Gatz, that discusses all of the ways that Yahoo is embracing RSS. Also discussed is Yahoo's recent publisher network that helps bloggers to earn cash from their musings, and includes a helpful RSS guide for publishers.

Microsoft's agreeing to use the Firefox RSS logo that appears in the browser when new content is discovered shows that the company is increasingly willing to play well with others on emerging standards. Because RSS is still so young, having everyone in agreement is critical for RSS to be the success that many people (myself included) expect.