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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. 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.