Yahoo Inc. is preparing to introduce a new service that blends several of its website's popular features with two of the Internet's fastest growing activities — blogging and social networking. The hybrid service, called "Yahoo 360," won't be available until March 29, but the Sunnyvale-based company decided to announce the product late Tuesday after details were leaked to news outlets.

Yahoo is testing the service with a small group of employees, some of whom have been working on the project since last year when the product was operating under the code name "Mingle." The service is designed to enable Yahoo's 165 million registered users to pull content from the website's discussion groups, on-line photo albums and review section to plug into their own Web logs, or blogs, the Internet shorthand used to describe on-line personal journals.

View: Yahoo tests blend of blogging, networking
View: Yahoo! 360° - Beta Waiting List
News source: CTV News ( CANADA )

Future functions for the next version

  • Clear all prior mapped network drive info
  • Junk tool - except files list
  • Registry tool improvements
  • Skin support


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Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by Nelsinho on 17 Mar 2005 - 11:55
sounds amazing, I already make my subscription in there, blogs rocks
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by buzlink on 17 Mar 2005 - 17:39
Will it be Yahoo only based, or can I intergrate my exising blog?
I signed up for the waiting list.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by tgindrup on 17 Mar 2005 - 17:56
I signed-up too. I guess we'll see what happens.
(4 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by warwagon on 17 Mar 2005 - 18:43
Xbox 360 - Yahoo 360

hmmm.. whats with all the 360's
Quote this comment #4.1 Posted by neufuse on 17 Mar 2005 - 20:03
mainly since xbox 2 isn't called xbox 360 that was just someone making it up, who knows
Quote this comment #4.2 Posted by divertom15 on 17 Mar 2005 - 20:09
actually microsoft did a survey and found that calling it xbox 2 would make it sound inferior to the playstation 3 so they wanted to have a "3" type name to make it sound like an equal product and not judged by the name (for a consumer not knowing anything and judging products by name)
Quote this comment #4.3 Posted by bucko on 18 Mar 2005 - 00:18
Omg I'm just gona buy me Xbox 360, honestly what a **** name and so is the name for this Yahoo think, me 360 blog, so 1337
Quote this comment #4.4 Posted by dolimite35 on 18 Mar 2005 - 15:52
Nintendo then should come out with Nintendo 5
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #5 Posted by divertom15 on 17 Mar 2005 - 19:59
beta waiting list no longer works
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #6 Posted by icebrain on 17 Mar 2005 - 22:35
I know nobody has seen this in action, but what's the difference between Yahoo 360 and Wallop?

Last edited by 12667 on 17 Mar 2005 - 22:43
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #7 Posted by Porp on 18 Mar 2005 - 01:22
I'll stick with MSN Spaces..
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #8 Posted by streetwolf on 18 Mar 2005 - 03:13
Seems Xbox 360 WILL be the official name.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #9 Posted by Rickie on 18 Mar 2005 - 09:19
Nice
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #10 Posted by nackchoon on 21 Mar 2005 - 20:30
This is funny...
Yahoo Korea had blogs since about a year ago..
Never knew that the original Yahoo never had a blog. ^^
In fact, I am currently using a Yahoo Korea Blog. Interesting...
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