Yahoo 360 Thoughts
Thanks to Stephen, I got hooked up with a Yahoo 360 invite. I wanted to kick the tires to see what they’ve come up with in their big fancy social networking system.
The coolest thing I see so far is the concept of friend-of-a-friend. I imagine it’s completely compatible with FOAF, but they expose preferences settings to let you restrict access to stuff (your blog, commenting on your blog, photos, etc…) to a list of options:
- Everyone
- Third Degree
- Friends of friends
- Private (just me)
I couldn’t find an Official Description of “Third Degree” – but I think that’s “Friends of friends’ friends” – which could be a really interesting way to build up a microcommunity based on people you know and/or trust. Either that, or it’s a bright spotlight being shone on an intimidated suspect sitting on a cold metal chair. Either way, it’s pretty cool to have that at your fingertips.
I have to agree with Joshua’s comment on this: “It’s funny it took [them] this long to release a blog service.” I wonder what they’re planning on doing with it. Between this and their recent acquisition of Flickr, they are sure trying hard to get some momentum back in the social software game.
Anyway, here’s my Y360 blog – with the icky GUID-inspired URL and all (the setting to generate friendlier URLs appears to be borked at the moment).
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What’s your name over there on Yahoo! 360? I’d like to add yeah, see how it all works
Tim
Oops. I’m the creatively named “darcy_norman” although some pages show me as “dnorman” – I’ve got no idea which one leads you to my stuff…
In Friendster, 3rd degree was such a large number, but its search capability was pretty good. Have you noticed if Yahoo360 searches well throughout the different degrees? Can you do advanced searches beyond your 1st degree? MySpace is a great social network because of it’s customizability but it’s searching is aweful. Orkut was just a mess. I’m pretty excited to see Yahoo360. If you have a spare invite, i’d love to explore it with you guys.
Neither 360.yahoo.com/dnorman or 360.yahoo.com/darcy_norman seem to be it – guess again D’Arcy!
Yeah. They haven’t switched on the “friendly URL” feature yet. But, you could just click the last link in the entry… The one that says “My Y360 Blog” That works, too…
Does everyone who uses Yahoo 360 get the opportunity to invite people? Will it be as hard to get invited there as it was to get an invitation in the early days of gmail? (fishing. . . fishing)
Hola:)
Can u give me an invitation?