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Yahoo! Tunes into Blogging and Social Networking

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the welcome-to-the-club dept.

aarthi_r writes "The social networking wars have finally begun, with Yahoo! coming out with it's very own Yahoo! 360, which combines blogging, social networking, music, mobile connectivity, local searches (for restaurants and businesses) as well as photo-sharing. With stiff competition from the early starters like Orkut it will be interesting to see if Yahoo! will succeed." If you want to log in, don't hold your breath- they aren't opening until the end of the month.

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  1. Typo/Doesn't seem so special by frazzydee · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think that it should be "Yahoo! tunes into...", unless you're actually talking about a service by Yahoo! called Tunes. Obviously, I have too much time on my hands ;o) here are a few sites that agree with me:
    Yahoo!s privacy policy "Yahoo! takes", "Yahoo! treats", "Yahoo! products and services"...
    Their currency converter "Neither Yahoo! nor"
    Geocities main page "Yahoo! member sign-in"

    But as for the actual story ;), it looks to me like they've seen how powerful it has been for google, and are pretty much copying them. Will it be successful? I don't think so; why would I want to use this new service by Yahoo! when I can use a more established service by google?
    But let's face it, most people don't think that way. Most people will see their other friends' blogs, say "I want one", and click that handy signup button right at the page they're on. And they know it's good, because their friend is using it. IMO, Yahoo! should've bought off another social networking company and taken advantage of an instant userbase.

    One more point: At the bottom of the article (you DID read it, didn't you?) it says that it's going to (initially) be invite-based, a la google. Well, IMHO this is a crappy idea. It worked for google because when they have something, it's (usually) fresh, new, and innovated. Plus, they always have the bonus of a fanclub. Yahoo!, on the other hand, does not enjoy such benefits. It doesn't seem any better than what I can get right now without begging for an invite.

  2. Duh by Sparr0 · · Score: 3, Insightful
    With stiff competition from the early starters like Orkut it will be interesting to see if Yahoo! will succeed.


    They want to overcome 'stiff competition' from Orkut? I have a simple solution... Allow people to join the site. This seems pretty obvious, but Orkut apparently hasnt figured it out yet. I am about 10 degrees of seperation from anyone who has ever even heard of Orkut, so they will never get my 'business'.
    1. Re:Duh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful
      Can't do it. Orkut would have to drop MS dot-Not. Since they chose a technology which can't scale and can't handle the load, they're obviously making decisions based on religion or ideology, so dropping the cherished dot-Not of Bill isn't going to happen.

      You'd think that they'd learn a lesson from Hotmail and drop MS from the infrastructure altogether.

  3. Social Networking needs to have a reason... by argent · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I've tried out Friendster and Orkut, but couldn't find any compelling reason to keep using them. The only social networking tools I find at all useful are ones based primarily on a specific interest, like Audioscrobbler, or ones that groups have built or, sometimes, that seem to have built themselves out of the raw network using ordinary communication tools like Usenet and bulletin boards.

    Trying to artificially develop a network of people whose only interest is that they're members of the same network... I don't know, it just seems silly.

  4. BBS's? by kc0re · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Except for the Music this sounds like.. back in the day BBS's that had forums, chat rooms, and file sharing. The idea of sharing music (at least where I logged on) hadn't caught up yet, *don't think Mp3 had been invented yet*, but...

    sounds like the WorldBBS of yesteryear.

  5. so many social network sites by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    how many social networking sites do we need?

    http://www.friendster.com
    http://www.orkut.com
    http://www.emode.com
    http://www.expats.com
    http ://www.tribe.net
    http://www.simpatico.com
    http:/ /www.christianconnect.com
    http://www.catholicconn ect.com
    http://www.netrelate.com/
    http://www.bud dhistconnect.com
    http://web.tickle.com/
    http://w ww.jewishconnection.com
    http://www.linkedin.com

    maybe the next thing someone will come up with is a meta-social-network, so you can have one network of all your other networks!