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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. Yahoo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    For a moment I thought yahoo was coming out with something to compete with itunes. But then without even RTFA'ing I figured they cant be that smart.

    You know integrate music purchasing and downloads with search or something. Oh without DRM whacko stuff would be nice, but I realize you cant have everything.

    Microsoft is really stupid they are neglecting the Windows My Music folder .. they need to have some open specification (yeah MSFT and open .. lol) so that mp3 players can automatically hook up and sync or whatever with that directory. Maybe Linux can take the lead on this one? There should also be a way for third parties and musicians to sell music online that can integrate
    with all this.
    Also, more content is needed like old & new tv shows and movies for download.

    Simply copying apple's strategy isn't going to cut it.

  2. EDS Doesn't Have a Clue! by Necrotica · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "From a corporate perspective, we are not confident where Linux is right now today. A large enterprise needs to be sure because it relates to securifying [sic] the environment. We see some of the same things occurring that did to Unix -- it could splinter into many different types of languages. We are quite cautious about Linux and its deployment," said Rasmussen." If I were a company looking to outsource my IT, EDS just talked themselves out of it. First of all, I don't know how anyone could securify anything. Second of all, I thought Unix was an operating system, not a language. It appears to me that Mr. Rasmussen has no idea what he is talking about and is obviously in WAAAAAY over his head. That's embarassing.