There was no mention of MyWeb in Yang’s blog post.

However common sense dictates that just like Yahoo! Photos and flickr, having two very redundant services doesn’t make much sense.

I just hope that the final product (killing MyWeb is inevitible) includes MyWeb’s “save this page” feature. They had it before ma.nolia and it’s the only thing missing from del.icio.us.

I use both services

For those who don’t like Yahoo simply don’t use it. I noticed when I started blogging on 360 that it was for the more mature crowd, actually blogging and commenting about differetn issues. That what makes it so unique from all the others. It needs some work though, which is hopefully where Mash will come in.

The sheer number of users is NOT an indication of how good the site is, particularly if that popularity is based on the tastes of a bunch of teenagers or preteens or tweens or whatever the hell those kids are referred to now. They might generate a lot of traffic; but that age group can’t generate the kind of REVENUE an older crowd–with jobs–can. The main advertisements on Facebook are for juvenile-themed T-shirts, and the main ads on Myspace? Grammatically-incorrect flash ads that have you wack people with chairs or shoot zombies so that you can “find out who ‘UR’ crush is!” (I’m guessing they meant “your”… I didn’t know Prince was writing internet ads these days.)

I guess it depends on whether you value quality over quantity. 360 was simple, user-friendly, relatively teenybopper-free, and had a vibrant, intelligent, interesting user base. Yahoo dropped the ball and is doing too little, too late to fix it, if what they’re doing can even be called fixing it. They did something like this with Yahoo Photos last month… I’d been using that service for close to ten years and literally had thousands of photos there; I was forced to find another website and ended up having to pay to get basically the same service I’d enjoyed for free at Yahoo… and no, I did NOT choose Flickr. I went with Smugmug.

I will continue to stand by 360 in the hopes that Yahoo will learn a hard lesson from this and make the upcoming replacement service worth-while and still geared towards intelligent blogging and socializing. In the meantime, I think I’ll be making more of a presence on Multiply.

http://yodel.yahoo.com/2007/10.....head-next/

I no longer support Yahoo!

You know why there is a drop off? because your users are leaving because YOU screwed the pooch on 360 by letting it stay in Beta for over 2 years. There are millions of users on 360 worldwide and you are too blind to see it. YOU have let 360 die and YOU have caused people to leave. YOU are the ones that ignore pleas to fix bugs. You people here have lost so many users because of your own stupidity. You had a good thing with 360 and I will tell you that your Mash idea is a farce and a joke of a platform. Think what you may but you even now have loyal users that think you wont close 360 because they don;t think you’d do that to them but yet here you are planning your continued deception. Way to go bozos!

The deceit bothers me the most. When they took away photos, I figured, maybe they need the space because there are so many of us.

Now I feel lied to. I will not trust my new blog site nearly as much.

There are many 360 folks who will miss Yahoo. I know I will.

I have blogged on 360 for 2 year’s, and until recently I was happy where I was. Then the site turned into a joke. Technical problems became a nightmare. Comments and emails that were lost in cyber space for day’s, or weeks at a time… Blog post’s that disappeared and reappeared days later… Misdirected links… Feed’s that don’t work… Vanishing groups, and friends… and the list goes on!

When we tried to get Yahoo to fix the problems, our plea’s feel on deaf ears. Then when the rumors started about 360 closing, the gave us a whitewash story about “Transitioning” to a more uniform profile system. Trying to smooth ruffled feathers, without causing a panic. When in truth they knew it was a sinking ship all along.

Most of the friend’s I made thru blogging on Yahoo 360 are in the process of migrating their blog’s and friend’s list’s to other blogging site’s as I type this. While others refuse to accept the inevitable. I will tell you this though… Because of their thoughtless actions and deceitful nature, Yahoo has alienated thousands of once loyal bloggers. Many of us are not only moving our blog’s, we are also moving our email address’s and paid websites. They will realize the error of their ways when they see Yahoo MASH fall flat on it’s face as well.

So when you say “NOBODY” noticed, you are seriously mistaken.

The even-sadder thing is, as one of the earlier commenters said, creating a product, then not supporting, promoting, or opening it up outside of a private-sandbox-within-Yahoo is a GREAT way to guarantee it’ll die.

Yahoo, by the way, acknowledges that it screwed up on 360, big-time.

Their new Univeral Profile System (yes; that’s what they’re calling it) will *not* be the “Mash” product — “Mash” is an experimental product; floated to find out if the concept works.

There are around 3,000,000 consistent users of Y/360. That’s not the number of zeroes on FaceSpace or some of the others - but it’s a consistent user base which is demographically older, more mature, and who have more disposable income than their teenage counterparts.

Fertile ground for advertisers.

While the “360 Refugees” at Multiply are busy snarking those of us who remain at 360 and go on with their rather immature ‘anti-Yahoo’ campaign, there are still a few of us left who are standing-pat, and seeing what the first of the year will bring.

Yahoo’s made some mistakes - I think we’ll all admit that. They may turn around and surprise us all with the replacement for 360.

Best,

–”Astra”