I couldn't be more excited about the work being done over at ZapTXT, a great service that filters your selected RSS feeds for keywords and will send you an IM, email or SMS whenever new results appear.  Now the service is answering the call of users who want to filter multiple RSS feeds bundled into an OPML file all for the same query without having to repeat set-up for each feed filtered.  No idea when that feature will be available, but that's what the good folks at ZapTXT are working on. 

Will this pull them ahead of competitors in the space like immedi.at and Rasasa?  We'll see!

Yahoo! email Beta in a handful of countries, excluding the US and most recently including Canada, now includes a number of interesting new features.  (Correction:  I learned in comments below that Yahoo was offering RSS in its email system for US users some time ago.) Drag and drop email organization sounds more AJAXian than GMail!  Perhaps most important, though, is the baked in support for RSS. MyYahoo! has already had huge success in introducing new users to RSS (many of whom don't know that's what they are using - not that that's a real big deal) and I can only presume that YahooMail integration of RSS has even greater potential.  The company's press release describes its leverage of syndication in a way that sounds more sophisticated than the relatively anemic implementation in MyYahoo.  Anyone in Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, France or Korea care to comment here on how seriously a Yahoo Mail user can use RSS?