Thanks to Jeremy Wright I got an invite to much-buzzed Yahoo! 360 service beta. Frankly, I was not impressed. Right now there are just three applications: blog, photo sharing, and social networking platform. None of these is of interest for me. I host my own blog (that one you are reading). I also have my own photo site on my home computer which gives me unlimited storage space, unrestricted image sizes, lightspeed uploads.
And I have never been a big fan of social networking. These friends-of-friends and accessible-via-chain-of-four things sound too complicated. It's not that I am stupid, just do not want to dive into that. For now, my social networking is my address book and list of IM contacts. Not too far from good old Rolodex.
It seems to me that there is a bit of an effort duplication at Yahoo. For example, I had some bookmarks on My Yahoo page (I do not use them anymore, I moved to Furl since then). When I found they have My Search, I found that I may have another set of bookmarks. What is the point?
This time they got it and even seem to make it right: my old Yahoo! Photos are integrated into Yahoo! 360.
Anyway, there is no real value for me in 360 at this point. Let's see how it evolves.
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Submitted by frolov on Sun, 2005-04-03 18:30.
