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Yahoo Experimenting with Blogs?
Tee Emm writes "Sven Latham reports on his Yet Another Blog that Yahoo is (probably) experimenting with its blog services for its general users. The test bench is in Korea and may be followed by an international service on yahoo.com. On the main Yahoo site, blogs.yahoo.com as well as blog.yahoo.com both are active though they take you to yahoo groups interface."
I would be interested in knowing which was the first blog system site ever created. My guess would be LiveJournal.com but I won't be sure. Does someone has a clue?
--- Bouh !!! ---
There's something about a blog that is entirely created and maintained by the blogger. I mean, would any of us really read wil wheaton's site if he just kept it at yahoo?
Nothing against yahoo or anything. It's great for people who don't have the resources or knowledge to maintain such a thing, but I doubt I'll be perusing the blogs on yahoo any time soon. Would you?
t.
I don't really see this doing anything to the blog world. If aol did one (or partnered with someone) It could be really usefull. Let it replace buddy profiles, have a little button on AIM to post a blog, Have a read my blog button in an AIM window. Hold the blogs at central server, but serve them locally (the only person who would hit there server would be the user, everyone else would read the blog off of the users computer, like the profiles are now). Im not really saying this will be usefull in anyway to the internet at large, but I't would let let blogs grow.
I don't mind the Yahoo company and their sites. They keep all seem to be pretty userfriendly and they use HTML they way it should be used. Of all the giant companies doign websites they are only bested by Google IMHO.
My roommate has a Photo Journal on his web site. While some days are really cool, and he is a really talented amature photographer, most days consist on what he ate for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner.
I generally use it to figure out what I was doing on a particular day. His girlfriend gets a bit embarrased - she must feel like a rock star at times.
I'm wondering if in the long run this is work Yahoo's time and money. If it is cheap to implement, then why not.
Not trying to create flamebait, but honestly, what use is...
Dear Blog (July 25): Just read an article on Yahoo about the guy with no feet who is walking cross county on his hands to raise money for kids born without ear lobes. Isn't that uplifting???
Dear Blog (July 25) I love my new iMac, it's just so yummy and friendly, not like the evil Micro$oft Winblows. Yuck!
Dear Blog (July 26): I hate that darn Marsha Brady, she's just so perfect!!!
Dear Blog (July 29): I just read an article on Yahoo about world politics, what follows are my 3.5 pages of unfocussed rant, aren't I smart world?
Dear Blog (July 30): Why won't he notice me damnit? Well, he'll notice when his cat disappears, the PETA website says we should free all the domestically enslaved house pets anyway. Here goes nothing?
Dear Blog (July 31): Mom took me to the doctor today, they say the Lithium will take the edge off, but I am not sure what that means. Think I will take a nap now......
Who F ing cares, personal Blogs are 99% attention whoring. And there's plenty of chat rooms, message boards and newsgroups for that purpose, just use this post as an example.
If no one has patented blogging, it's not too late as many previous patent suits have shown us!
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
I still use maps.yahoo.com
in my opinion its still the best map finder on the web.
Fuck mapquest
--meh--
For example, you take a look at the highest trafficked sites. Not surprisingly, the top sites are yahoo and MSN... but somewhere around #3 you get a Korean site and from there on down you get a pretty solid representation between sites that are primarily American, Korean and Japanese.
Every 90 seconds, somewhere in the world, a woman is gving birth.
She must be found, and stopped.
Well hmm what happened earlier this year?
.. they should try and keep doing their thing instead of copying Google. Google is a wonderful salad bowl search engine .. but well .. their categorization of things into easy categories has somethingn to be desired. I've alwasy gone to yahoo for stuff when i didn't exactly know what the site was but I wanted to find it by driling down in categories. Yahoo has always been good for that.
Google bought blogger.com or something like that, the biggest of the Blog hosting sites/engines.
So in Yahoo's scramble.. to figure out why they're loosing to google, they're gonna start blogs too.
Personally i think Yahoo has always had a lot going for them
oh well maybe they'll figure out what their looking for some day.
Who makes you Sig?
- Topic icons and preferably custom. I love topic icons!
- Friends like in here, along with new journal notifications. Communities are nice too (like in LiveJournal) but I'm not used to them.
- Erase comments of annoying people and ban them too, and block anonymous posters. Slashdot kinda lacks in that.
- Embedding pictures in the blog and preferably allowing to upload them on the same server too.
- Lists that can appear on the side of the blog.
- Marital status, searchable. Blogs can be a great dating service too!
What do you think? Will they enable those things?Slashdot community, please notice: I am looking for a girlfriend.
Nave H. Weiss
QUOTE "LiveJournal predates the term 'blog', which is one reason why it's called "LiveJournal" and not "LiveBlog". Back when Brad Fitzpatrick was writing what would later become LiveJournal, I was writing something similar." /END QUOTE
Let's not forget about finger. Probably the earlist easily identifiable 'blog' (what an ugly term) predecessor. Many game developers and security experts had their finger info available for access over www. Those were thoughts and ideas! Unlike 99% of blogs existing today.