So does this simply mean that Yahoo “get’s it’ where Google chooses to take their sweet time? Could be!

The intrapreneurial story of Scott Gatz, a Yahoo product manager and a skunkworks RSS project shipped Jan 04 : “Early on, people in the company had said “you really ought to look at RSS”. In fact, one of the best My Yahoo engineers had already built a My Yahoo RSS reader on his own time. RSS wasn’t well known at the time (very few newspapers or sites had feeds) but we knew it could be really big.

There were a LOT of people in the company who still felt that we should be a walled garden and that doing this would kill our media business…. Source: ben barren - rss’ing down under