Yahoo! 360º is a personal communication portal similar to Google Orkut and Friendster. It integrates features of social networking, blogging, and photo sharing sites.
A user may create a personal web site, share their photos from Yahoo! Photos, maintain a blog, a list of local reviews, profile information, and see which friends are currently online. The service, currently in beta testing, launched on March 29, 2005. Like Gmail, new users may only sign up if they are invited.
Whats New About Yahoo 360
Yahoo 360 has been trailing the more popular blogging sites such as MySpace and Blogger. As far as blogging platforms go, Yahoo's is pretty bad. Actually, it's not so much about being bad as it is about being non-existent. And so with that in mind, Yahoo vice president of product development Bradley Horowitz made a public announcement regarding the future of their Yahoo 360 offering. During the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Horowitz told the crowd that, "Yahoo 360 may be doing a 180 [degree turn]."
He was responding to an audience member who voiced his displeasure with Yahoo's current blogging platform, which has been in the beta stage since it was launched in March of 2005.
A quick look at http://360.yahoo.com offers little to titillate the senses or the intellect, so I decided to take a closer look at what Yahoo 360 has to offer (or more specifically, what it doesn't offer) by opening a user account and logging on.
At first glance, it appears as if Yahoo made a half-hearted attempt at making Yahoo 360 more than a simple blogging interface, blending in some of the social networking features that make Myspace.com such a popular locale for web users. So in essence, Yahoo 360 appears to be a melding of a straight publishing interface like Google's blogger.com and the aforementioned Myspace.com. Mind you, these two portals are the No. 1 and No. 2 blogging interfaces in the world, respectively, Beyond the blog publishing interface, Yahoo 360 offers several other options, which again, are reminiscent of what is offered over at myspace.com.
There's a "My Friends" feature which allows you to network with other Yahoo 360 users and create a web of online friends. Also, there's a mailbox feature, which allows users to e-mail one another from within Yahoo 360. In addition, the folks at Yahoo wisely decided to include an "Invite" button which allows existing users to recommend Yahoo 360 to their friends. And lastly, there are "Search" and "Setting" options which are a staple of any respected publishing or social networking platform.
Yahoo 360 allows for a title, and image attachment, and a half-dozen or so text formatting options. It won't really do the trick for professional, SEO-minded publishers because it doesn't offer a way to edit key meta tags such as the "Title" tag. But then again, blogger.com doesn't offer that function either.
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