Full FeedYahoo 360 to close on July 13
Yahoo has announced that the long delayed closing of its Yahoo 360 social networking service will now happen on July 13th. Yahoo 360 opened with great fanfare in 2005 and was hoped to become a serious competitor to MySpace and Facebook, but it never happened. The site’s closure was first announced in 2007 and pushed several times in 2008. Finally however, the service will officially be shut down.
Users will be transitioned to the new Yahoo Profiles service. This new service gives users the ability to publish information about themselves, broadcast status updates, and keep a blog. However, it still leaves much to be desired and doesn’t match the features of 360, something Yahoo acknowledges:
“At this time, your new profile does not have all the features and functionality of your 360 profile. However, we are looking at incorporating new ways of expressing yourself through your profile,” Yahoo’s community manager Melissa Daniels wrote. “In regards to uploading multiple photos, your profile on Yahoo allows for only one primary photo for now. This is also something we’re looking at improving/expanding based on your feedback.”
The failure of Yahoo 360 is just another chink in the once mighty Internet portal. Their search engine has long since been eclipsed by Google and technologically it has lost its edge as its financial picture became unstable.
Will the new Yahoo Profiles service be all Yahoo hopes it will be? Only time will tell, but given the company’s recent history and the speed at which things change in the Internet landscape, I wouldn’t hold my breath.
Read [PCWorld]
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MySpace and Facebook are two of the giants on social networking that have been enjoyed by a huge crowd since beta. Having said that, there’s no way Yahoo 360 could overpass such not unless they’re whiz enough to configure a very unique taste of social networking capability to offer to the crowd. Ok, 360 is good enough but it’s evident that it lacks something that people still can’t decide to totally move over to it.
on June 1, 2009 at 11:26 PM - LINK