Yesterday while updating the appearance of my home homepage(My Yahoo) I couldnt help but notice several changes, including a tiny hyperlink, BLOG. I clicked it, and it opened a blog page which is apparently the My Yahoo blog on how great the new My yahoo is. Whoopee!
But id got me to thinking about how Yahoo has not really committed to what the "new " format would be; there is a lot of talk about MASH, but I doubt Yahoo on that. Silly me I know. Then yesterday I started getting all these messages, 9 in all, that I had NEW comments on my blog, but you know what? EVERY comment was from either October or November of this year, ones I had already read. So I am wondering whats up with that? So this morning I started redoing the My Yahoo home page, I noticed my recent posts pictures on Flickr are on my home page. (Flickr is owned by Yahoo)..
I think that Yahoo will likely incorporate all the features from yahoo 360 as seperate modules in My Yahoo. Why? Cost and revenue flow. I asked myself , as a developer, what makes more sense? I can keep what people like about 360, and make it more granular, in that Blogs can be a module, photos a module, etc. A new module like About me would be OK(Profile) and then all you have to do is export those modules out to a feed, and you would have essentially replaced 360, or replicated it? I think the comments I read earlier about how Yahoo was trying to copy the features from more popular sites like MySpace is true no matter what they say...and in fact thtis is also what they(Yahoo) say in their own MASH tutorials, that various modules will be interactive, which leads me to think that some of the content between My Yahoo and whatever they come out with will be shared...One last word. TopTen Reviews rated 360 as 4th best bloging page, after WorldPress, TypePad and Blogger: "Yahoo 360 beats out Windows Live Spaces because with Yahoo you get your own blog page page...This is the one of the best blog services we found for personal use. Yahoo offers numerous free tools, a clean layout and they do not put ads on your blog page. They also make it easy for you to connect to your friends and family."
So WHY is Yahoo so intent on killing 360?????
I like it because it IS different from MySpace and Facebook etc !!!
Speaking Facebook
"At Facebook’s Nov. 6 extravaganza to introduce its new social advertising features, I asked the first question after the speech of Mark Zuckerberg, the company’s 23-year-old chief executive. I asked why he thought lots of users would want to have information about their purchases sent to their Facebook friends through the company’s new system called Beacon."
Beacon is exactly the right name "Facebook Beacon enables your brand or business to gain access to viral distribution within Facebook. Stories of a user's engagement with your site may be displayed in his or her profile and in News Feed. These stories will act as a word-of-mouth promotion for your business and may be seen by friends who are also likely to be interested in your product."
Facebook came under withering criticism from its users and privacy advocates alike when a security researcher revealed that the ad system tracks user activities on third-party partner sites—including the activities of people who never signed up with Facebook, who deactivated their accounts or who were not signed on to the site. Beacon captures data on what users do and buy on the external sites and sends it back to Facebook.
How many of us would like the fact that we bought something online automatically posted to your freinds???
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