Yahoo! 360: A great start
By Charlene Li
I’ve been playing with Y! 360 for a few hours and have to report that it’s a great start for the service. The profile is your standard social networking-like profile – you fill out basics like the movies and books that you like. You can see my 360 page here.
The blogging tool is also very basic. You can upload one photo (no files) and there’s a WYSIWYG editor. There are a few glitches and while it lacks many of the bells and whistles I’m used to on my Typepad blog, it gets the job done.
What was interesting is that I started seeing bits and pieces beginning to integrate from the Yahoo! network. I could easily upload photos from Yahoo! Photos, my groups were integrated in, and even reviews I did showed up.
What was really fun (OK, not so fun) was sending out invites to all of the people who had requested them (sorry, I’m out of them so far – turns out you only get 100). I noted something interesting there – a preponderance of gmail.com addresses. So I counted and this is what I got: 22% of requesters had Gmail accounts, 18% had a Yahoo! email address, and 3% had hotmail.com domains. Interestingly, there was one person with a Yahoo! email and MSN Spaces personal Web site – I have a feeling he/she will be changing that URL soon!
So kudos to Yahoo! for pulling it off. In my past conversations with various blogging and social networking players, many said that they were safe from portal entry because "large companies can't innovate". Well, MSN Spaces and Yahoo! 360 are proving them wrong -- while it's just a start, these services have the loyal base of users to build a large group of users very quickly...even if they aren't as sophisticated and innovative in their offerings right now.
By all means, keep adding your comments and thoughts about the Yahoo service, especially as it compares to other blogging and social networking competitors.
Can someone who was invited by Charleni, invite me?
:)
ajaychellappa@yahoo.com
Posted by: Ajay | March 29, 2005 at 09:07 PM
Ditto what Ajay said above, that is, could someone who Charlene invited possibly please invite me?
ozman.lasvegas@gmail.com
Thank you
Posted by: Ozman | March 29, 2005 at 11:03 PM
I also really want to test Yahoo! 360.
Could someone also send me an invitation as well?
I do appreciate your help.
Thanx..
Posted by: Hsu | March 30, 2005 at 01:16 AM
Sorry, I forgot to say that my email is smallsun@gmail.com
Thanx..:)
Posted by: Hsu | March 30, 2005 at 01:19 AM
I would appreciate it really much if someone could send me an invitation. Thank you in advance!
Posted by: Fedya Bagnenko | March 30, 2005 at 01:47 AM
I guess I should have checked my inbox before I posted earlier. Xie Xie Ni Charlene :)
I just sent invites to Ajay, Hsu and Fedya
Posted by: OzMan | March 30, 2005 at 01:56 AM
Thanks a lot Ozzie :). I appreciate it.
Posted by: Ajay | March 30, 2005 at 02:01 AM
OzMan....I got it.
U are really nice and thank u.
Best regards,
Hsu
Posted by: Hsu | March 30, 2005 at 02:09 AM
Hi,
Stumbled here when surfing for more info on Yahoo 360.
"The blogging tool is also very basic. You can upload one photo (no files) and there’s a WYSIWYG editor." -> no reason to be basic since Yahoo Korea has been offering blog hosting for more than a year now. Even Flash media files and multimedia URLs can be posted there.
Would love to get an invite too, if you can spare one.
Thx.
Posted by: huangsy | March 30, 2005 at 02:21 AM
hey ppl having 360's invites.. can i be a member?
Posted by: Prasoon | March 30, 2005 at 02:38 AM
Can someone who was invited me?
luixc@yahoo.com.cn
Posted by: s5s5 | March 30, 2005 at 03:10 AM
Hi, can one of you give me an invite? I would like to try the new Yahoo 360. Thank You,
huimk at yahoo.com
Posted by: mike | March 30, 2005 at 03:27 AM
Charlene,
Enjoy your blog. Thanks for the sneak peek of Yahoo! 360. Just wanted to give you a heads up that your age is showing under your picture on the home page. Don't worry I won't tell anyone:)
Posted by: Brent | March 30, 2005 at 09:29 AM
Hate to be a leech, but I'm curious to test this out. An invite would be much appreciated if anyone has one to spare. tjd@slowriot.org
Posted by: Tom | March 30, 2005 at 10:33 AM
hello,
if it isnt any trouble could someone invite me so that i can try out yahoo 360 i would grately appreciate it
thanx
Jen
Posted by: Jen | March 30, 2005 at 11:50 AM
Here is my e-mail its dusty_faer1e_wings@yahoo.com i forgot to add it sorry
Posted by: Jen | March 30, 2005 at 11:52 AM
If you need some help sending out, let me know. I noticed we get our invites back once somebody accepts them. So if you send out 10, once they accept them then you get 10 back.
Posted by: David W. Quinn | March 30, 2005 at 12:03 PM
if you happen to have an extra invite, it would be rad if you sent it my way! matikonesta@gmail.com
Posted by: cody | March 30, 2005 at 03:33 PM
I really wish to test this new service. If you have invites, please, invited me. Thank's.
Posted by: Alejandro Ojeda | March 30, 2005 at 04:01 PM
Also,i want get one..
My mail is :siyizhu@msn.com
THX.
Posted by: siyizhu | March 30, 2005 at 04:02 PM
Charlene, thanks for the great introduction to Yahoo 360. I can't wait to take it for a test drive if anyone has a spare invite.
tmarshburn(at)yahoo(dot)com
I could be the second person in your test group with the Yahoo email and MSN Space.
Posted by: Todd | March 30, 2005 at 04:09 PM
If someone could send an invite my way, that would be great.
asmythie ureach com
Thanks.
Posted by: Alan Smythie | March 30, 2005 at 04:47 PM
Thanks for this look Charlene. I would have expected Yahoo! to actually allow more bloggers to beta test but I guess that's why we look to Opinion Shapers like yourself to keep us in the loop. I will definately be pointing readers of my site to this article and your previous one. Keep up the good work!
Posted by: Michael Cohen | March 30, 2005 at 09:36 PM
Thx to Ozman, I've tested and set up
http://360.yahoo.com/huangsy_88
I'm kind of disappointed; really don't see why the existing features of Yahoo Korea Blog were not incorporated into Yahoo 360.
Those who knowing HTML codes (not me) would be able to post more than text writing.
Posted by: Huang | March 30, 2005 at 09:50 PM
Thank you if you can invite me with yahoo 360
Posted by: Zhang Wei | March 30, 2005 at 11:34 PM
I'm studying social networking I'm very interested in Yahoo! 360. I'd like to learn more about it.. can someone invite me?
Thanks
Fabio Latino
Posted by: Fabio Latino | March 31, 2005 at 10:34 AM
Several 1000 invites are here:
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=3719
Posted by: Jason | March 31, 2005 at 12:39 PM
I've used Blogger for quite some time. Although it certainly has it's pitfalls, there are many advantages that the 360 blog lacks...most notably, customization of the blog template. I can see utilizing Yahoo! 360 in it's present form as a business/career place on the web, and for communicating with family/friends (assuming that they were all Yahoos...most of mine aren't). However, the blog experience as I've come to know it on Blogger is not yet present here, nor is it present on MSN Spaces or Friendster for that matter. Perhaps that is by design, perhaps not. I just find it hard to believe that hard core bloggers will end up posting their blogs here. If they do anything, they will probably just have a link to their "real" blog.
Posted by: Bob C | March 31, 2005 at 03:31 PM
anyone can invite me,plz invite me...thank u and my mail is herlocklee@yahoo.com
Posted by: terran | April 05, 2005 at 04:35 PM
Intresting to read. I had a look, and it looks very promissing. As you are intrested in technology, perhaps you might be intrested in following blogs:
mistwereld.blogspot.com
mistwereldacademy.blogspot.com
mistwereld.squarespace.com
But I'd agree with Bob C, form what I've seen, I would use it as an, a front page, with links to all my blogs. Still it is useful using it together with a yahoo account.
Squarespace is intresting although it cost money, because it offers possibilites that most of the other don't.
https://www.bitpass.com/earn/newaccnt/studios.html
Bitpas is intresting as it alows to sell ideas, with minimal setup costs.
No need to invite me, if it happens, that is ok, if it doesn't happen, then that is also ok.
Posted by: Floris Vermeir | April 13, 2005 at 10:57 AM
yeah, if someone happens to have an extra invite or something and you were willing could someone invite me. I'm really eager to both try, and to use this system.
James
Posted by: James | April 20, 2005 at 10:27 AM
plz invite me
tanx
Posted by: john | May 20, 2005 at 02:05 AM
Your website is so beautiful!
Posted by: Ambrose | November 21, 2005 at 10:07 AM
Gmail invite sharing site
http://www.sharefan.com/gmail
Posted by: gmailshare | April 09, 2006 at 11:41 AM