« "ajaxing" calendar | Main | experiencing difficulties @Library of Congress »
August 09, 2005
thoughts on Yahoo!360
ouch. I don't know about all this free advice. Anyhow, Yahoo!360 which is known internally at Yahoo! as an experiment is doomed from the beginning. No matter how well it may do, it won't be able to get *everybody* because of the network effect, stuck like Yahoo!Messenger. That's aside from the fact that getting started on it is like getting started on the "big dig" with a little itty bitty shovel.
Make hosting something like rebron.org easy. Make me host my site at Yahoo, make it easy for me to upload files and change my stylesheets, make it easy for me to add yahoo services as well as other services. That's it. You get your money (advertising) back from the links off of my site. You may even be able to get me to integrate your ad sense type product or make me pay for hosting my stuff.
We'll see how it goes. It seems that Y!360 is more of a repository of Yahoo services which gets filled up when prompted by friends/others to do stuff on that service. They did get the Yahoo!Messenger integration concept right. I wish it was just a better service.
Why don't you guys talk to Anil or the WordPress guys and your own guys (geocities, domain/small business people) and come up with something better. It's annoying.
Posted by rebron at August 9, 2005 12:13 AM
Comments
Post a comment
Thanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (sign out)
(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)