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If you already use Yahoo Mail, you’re going to be seriously stoked about this one. If you don’t use it, this could almost be a good enough reason to switch. I’m still a big gmail fan, but this has me drooling

Yahoo announced today that they’ve built an RSS aggregator in to Yahoo Mail. Since it’s only available to people in the Beta, I couldn’t try it out but it looks pretty darn sweet. Yes, you can read your RSS feeds in the same place you read your email. Yes, it’s a full fledged aggregator, so you can just click on a feed and read whatever new content is there. It looks incredibly easy to forward articles on (and obviously you can use your address book and groups to do so), and you can also drag and drop blog posts into your regular mail folders. I dig that feature big time.

I still feel like one of the biggest problems with blogs is that you still need to be mildly geeky to understand RSS and what you do with those cryptic pages of XML code in order to subscribe to a feed. I don’t personally use My Yahoo, but I do love the fact that they created a one-click method to subscribe to blogs and add them to a user’s My Yahoo page. I wouldn’t be surprised if they come up with something similar to subscribe to blogs in yahoo mail as well (hopefully using the same mechanism so people don’t have to change their buttons).

I wish the screenshots were a bit better. Anyone have access to the Beta and want to get some better shots?