Yahoo's MyWeb 2.0 beta and del.icio.us

Yahoo launched My Web 2.0 in beta today and while I don't have time right now to pontificate on the larger meanings (take a look at John Markoff's piece in today's NYT for that), my first thought was, "cool! but gosh, I've put all this effort into tagging and sharing stuff in del.icio.us already. . . . "

It didn't take long for me to realize that since you can import RSS feeds into My Web 2.0 (very nice, Yahoo folks), and del.icio.us generates an RSS feed of my stuff, then I could just import my del.icio.us RSS feed into My Web 2.0 to get a head start. Not only did this approach work, all my del.icio.us tags were carried over in the transition. I like the way Yahoo makes new technologies simple for regular folks, but also takes care of the geeks who walk among us.