Yahoo! 360°
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| Yahoo! 360° | |
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| Image:Yahoo 360 beta 1.gif Image:360 1.JPG Typical 360° personal homepage (when logged in and viewing one's own page) | |
| URL | http://360.yahoo.com/ |
| Commercial? | Yes |
| Type of site | Social network service |
| Registration | Required |
| Owner | Yahoo! |
| Created by | Yahoo! 360° teams |
| Launched | March 29, 2005 |
Yahoo! 360° (a.k.a Yahoo! Days) is a personal communication portal operated by Yahoo!. It is similar to Orkut and MySpace, and remained in beta testing. On 360 integrated features of social networking, blogging, and photo sharing sites.
Users could create personal web sites, share photos from Yahoo! Photos, maintain blogs, lists of local reviews, supply profile information, and see which friends are currently online. 360° also, by default, features a 'friends updates' section, under which each friend's latest update is summarized (e.g. blog posts, updates lists, new photostream etc.).
The service launched on March 29, 2005.
A Yahoo! 360° application program interface (API) was also in the works, however on October 16, 2007, Yahoo announced that they would no longer provide support for or perform bug fixes on Yahoo! 360 as they intend to abandon it in early 2008 in favor of a "universal profile" that will be similar to their Yahoo! Mash experimental system.[1] They have, however, said, that it will not be replaced with Mash itself.[2]
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[edit] History
The service launched on March 29, 2005 on an invitation-only basis. Since June 24, 2005 it has become available to any Yahoo! user over the age of 18 in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada, Australia, Japan and Vietnam.
[edit] Features
Features introduced with 360°:
- Themes - custom and prebuilt
- Blogs (with RSS feeds)
- Lists - where users may compile interests, favorite movies, books, and so on
- Feeds - where users may include RSS feeds for themselves and others from favorite sources
- Photos - users may share their public photo albums from Flickr.com
- Blasts - quick posts or ideas that are neither published in the blog nor archived
- Testimonials - "review" and praise individuals
- Groups - connect to users sharing similar interests
- Friend Updates - view latest activities from friends
- Quick Comments - leave short messages on other people's pages
- LAUNCHcast - share music stations and tastes
- Reviews from Yahoo! Local, Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo! Travel and Yahoo! Games
[edit] Integration with Yahoo! Messenger
Since v8.0, Yahoo! Messenger built in features that allowed users to view 360° page, update blasts, post blog entries and view friend updates from within Messenger. This integration allowed Messenger users to view their contacts' pages and alerted users when their contacts' updated their page.
[edit] Integration with other Yahoo! services
Yahoo! 360° integrated with several Yahoo! services. These include:
- Flickr
- LAUNCH
- Yahoo! Messenger
- Yahoo! Avatars
- Yahoo! Groups
- Yahoo! Local
- Yahoo! Shopping
- Yahoo! Travel
- Yahoo! Games
- Yahoo! Geocities
[edit] Official blog
The 360° team maintained a product blog which included a comment function for users. The last post, however, was October 24 and no comments have been responded to since that date.
[edit] Celebrities using Yahoo! 360°
- Amy Lee (lead singer of Evanescence) (according to Yahoo! 360° Canada)
[edit] References
- ^ Yahoo! 360 Product Blog, "The Evolution of Yahoo! 360" from Matt Warburton, Yahoo! Community Manager
- ^ Yahoo! 360 Product Blog, "The 360° Transition - Answers to some of your questions" from Matt Warburton, Yahoo! Community Manager
[edit] External links
Yahoo! Inc. | |
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| Exhaustive list of products and services | |
| Advertising | Panama · Search Marketing · Yahoo! Publisher Network |
| Developer Networks/Resources | Yahoo! Gallery · Yahoo! Developer Network |
| Search | blo.gs · Directory · Finance · Flickr · Groups · HotJobs · Kelkoo · LAUNCHcast · Maps · Movies · News · Podcasts · Sports · Video · WWW |
| Communication & Publishing | Flickr · del.icio.us · Answers · Mail · GeoCities · Messenger · Voice · Games · 360° · Mash · Mobile · Go · Photos · Pipes · Upcoming · Jumpcut.com · Rivals.com |
| Computer Applications | Widgets · Desktop Search · Messenger · Music Jukebox · The All-Seeing Eye · Toolbar |
| Annual Revenue: Image:Green Arrow Up Darker.svg$6.7 Billion USD (2007) · Employees: 11,400 (2007) Stock Symbol: (NASDAQ: YHOO), (LSE: YAH) · Website: Yahoo.com | |
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