April 04, 2005

Yahoo 360 Beta Not That Great

The initial impressions of Yahoo 360 are tepid at best. The combination blog and social community doesn't really add much to the table in terms of new features, in fact the implementation is kind of confusing. However once Flickr functionality is added, I bet people will start loving it. But until then, it's not much to crow about.

Communicating with Yahoo 360 buddies, though, is so multi-layered that it might give you an Internet migraine. In addition to sending instant messages via Yahoo's instant messenger (there's no support for more popular IM services from AOL or Microsoft), you can use two new communication channels. One lets you zap e-mail-like notes to pals. The other can "blast" short notes that your friends will see on their Yahoo 360 pages in a cartoonish bubble next to your photo.