Dancing About Architecture

Here's what my shared RSS feed at http://myweb.search.yahoo.com/myweb/user/JmsuNkD8IuTtqCqOM9o-/Shared/rss.xml (also burned as http://feeds.feedburner.com/YahooMyWebShared ) looks like:

<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>Yahoo! My Web Shared</title>
<link>http://myweb.search.yahoo.com/myresults/myresults</link>
<description>Pages saved to Yahoo! My Web</description>
<language>en-us</language>
<copyright>Copyright 2005, Yahoo!</copyright>
<image>
<url>http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/sch/b/mys_logo_xsm.gif</url>
<title>My Yahoo! Search</title>
<link>http://myweb.search.yahoo.com</link>
<width>144</width>
<height>18</height>
</image>

<item>
<title>FeedBurner - Point your feed here. We&#039;ll do the rest.</title>
<link>http://www.feedburner.com/</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.feedburner.com/</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2005 01:15:33 GMT</pubDate>
</item>

<item>
<title>Get the Yahoo! Toolbar Beta with My Web</title>
<link>http://beta.toolbar.yahoo.com/</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">http://beta.toolbar.yahoo.com/</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2005 01:12:32 GMT</pubDate>
</item></channel>
</rss>

Couple of things pop right out. First, where are the notes I typed in for my links?!? I was expected that there would be a description element that contained my personal description of the link. Pretty useless without that!

Next, those aren't guids! There's nothing universally unique about those ids. I guess maybe they're scoping the id space to the feed, but that's not the idea behind a guid. Better to not have it than have these guids.

Tags/categories? Nope. Actually, maybe this isn't meant to be a link manager ... maybe it's just supposed to help you manage your search results over time or something.

Well, it's a Beta, so maybe this is just a rough approximation of what they're working towards. I'll probably continue to check in, but I don't see it displacing del.icio.us for me any time soon.