SocioNetworking, Yahoo Style
Yahoo! 360° -- currently in beta phase -- is up. I think the social webbing and blogging arena is fed up with more newcomers, but Yahoo has gone ahead anyways. One user and Yahoo employee remarks:
You probably heard about Yahoo! 360 (our answer to what happens when you combine your friends, your content (pictures, lists, reviews, etc), and a bit of blogging fu). I'll write more about it later, probably but am happy to see that some people "get it." 360 was not designed to be YASNS (Yet Another Social Networking Service). The goal is not to amass as many "friends" as possible, unlike Friendster, Orkut, and others. It's about making it easier to share stuff with people who really are you friends--tne ones you already talk to, email, IM, etc.
Yahoo 360, which combines blogging tools with social networking, is being designed as a place where people can go on and publish and share content and keep up with the people that they know. It will provide access from one-page services that are now separate on Yahoo. According to
ZDNet, at this stage in the development of the Internet, people are "less interested about getting online and meeting new people...these days, people really want to do a better job of keeping up with the relationships that they already have." See if you can get an invite at --hey, wait--didn't
Google start that secretive invite thing with GMail? --
360.yahoo.com
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