May 25, 2005 12:28 PM
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(Updated May 25, 2005 01:36 PM)
Just created my space on yahoo 360 (https://360.yahoo.com/san1378). A new website, which is aimed at making blogging, sharing photos and creating a personal presence on web . I think this site is reply to Microsoft's MSN Spaces, which they launched with much fanfare, but could not get that much success. This site is different and it makes blogging easy for all those who do not have much experience of the blogosphere. Pros.
YM Integration- Being Yahoo's service, its fully integrated with the yahoo messenger. You can use your contacts of yahoo messengers, share all your details with your friends.
Easy BloggingBlogging is reaaly easy. Just click and start writing. No technical knowledge required, no requirement for publishing tool and in a jiffy you have a nice looking blog ready. The biggest problem for the new bloggers is getting readers, here you have all your yahoo /outlook address book to help you. Just use them to market your blog in few clicks.
BlastThis is an innovative feature, where you can put a quick message, quote, view on your site and your friends and respond to that. It just like sending PM in yahoo messenger.
All yahoo services at one placeOnce you login to yahoo 360, you have all the yahoo services accessible to you, yahoo mails, yahoo groups, yahoo photos etc.
Easily share your photographsYou can share your photographs. There is a facility by which you can choose a category of friends, with whom you want to share the photographs. So no need to share with all the users.
Blog with your mobile you can post your text blogs as well as photo blogs by your mobile. So enjoy a new experience in blogging.
Share your reviewsThere is an unique features where you can share your product reviews with others (MS now has a strong competition.).
Share what you are listeningYou can share your music list, and also publish what music station you are listening on yahoo launchcast.
Separate mail box for ''y360'' messages you have a separate mail box for message/comments related to Y360.
RSS FeedThough the feature is not functional yet, but yahoo ppl have promised to make it available very soon. So you have RSS feed ready for your sites and RSS readers.
Recommend what you likeThe bloggers have to design a separate column for books they are reading or they want to recommend, here they have provided you a readymade tool to do that.
So, Cherish. there a lot more there and a lot more coming (a yahoo promise.)
Cons
The biggest con.. ITS BETA VERSION NOT OPEN TO ALL, SO YOU HAVE TO WAIT UNLESS SOMEONE SEND YOU AN INVITE.
Blog-Not customizableFor a seasoned blogger, customization of blog is very important. Here yahoo 360 lacks the feature. I hope they will introduce that very soon.
Not too much options for different look and feel Currently you cannot do much about the appearance of your page. Lets see what they do in future. Overall - A good initiative by yahoo, which is very soon going to take online activities by storm.
