Now that Yahoo! 360 will officially be closed, where will you move your blog and friends to?
Category: How to Categorize this? Add commentsYahoo! Singapore country manager in Vietnam confirmed: Yahoo! 360 will be closed in April 2009.
Yahoo! 360 is hosting more than 4 millions accounts, 2 millions of which are from Vietnam. The service has been very buggy for more than a year and development was ceased.
Yahoo! introduced Yahoo! 360Plus Vietnam with Vietnamese interface in April 2008. A utility to migrate part of data from 360 to 360Plus Vietnam has been provided.
Local players from Vietnam are in a race to win users dropping out of 360. Meanwhile, Facebook Vietnamese interface is going to be launched.
If you use Yahoo! 360, where do you plan to move your social graph (connections) to?
Addenda
- Yahoo! 360plus Vietnam is expected to be integrated into Yahoo! Profiles in April 2009.
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Last update November 20, 2008
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November 20th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Facebook is first thing coming up to my mind. As I’m getting old, it is such a pain to make myself get used to another blog system. Meanwhile, Facebook is where I am active for more than a year and most of my friends have already moved here. So why not Facebook?
November 20th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
I believe a large portion of users have been moving to Yahoo! 360Plus, YoBanBe, and various Vietnamese SNS’s that I can’t remember at the moment. It seems to me that local dot com businesses are dominating. Not many people I know use Blogger, WordPress, or TypePad…but that’s just what I saw.
I’ve alreay been using various social networks so I don’t have a problem staying in touch with friends. For blogging, I used to use Yahoo! 360, Windows Live Spaces, Blogger, TypePad, and now currently settle down wth WordPress. I’m not a loyal user.
November 20th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
oops, pls dont close yahoo 360 >”‘< Pls, think carefuly before doing some things ! Or you can make another better web like 360 and save all our information ! Therefore, we can move on new web but we also still keep all memories in old 360 okay ? hope to hear some things new ^^
November 20th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Tai, off course they will move over to http://www.yume.vn (the best site so far for Vietnamese)
November 20th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
@Huy: Yup, I can tell
@Hang: Where is the majority of your social graph now?
@kristy: We’ll see how 360 content would be catered for
@Mr. Vu: YuMe has my full supports. Cheers!
November 20th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
this really is an era that e’thing has to be backed up including ur own feelings (written down into blog entries). I bet Y!360 is losing lots of loyal users this time. Such a pain in the ass when i think of moving everything
November 21st, 2008 at 11:57 am
i rarely leaved comments on other’s 360, so i play myselft on my own site
November 23rd, 2008 at 12:03 am
[...] the occasion of Yahoo! 360 being closed in April 2009, I have some personal recommendations for an alternative blogging [...]
December 3rd, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Im thinking of Facebook, cos in the country Im living, many are using FB and even some dont know any about Yahoo 360. Yahoo 360 Viet version seems somehow old fashioned with the English translated. Like when you read a book which is told to be a best seller with many sex scenes, and when those words are translated into VNmese, are you sure you won’t find it so disgusting and doubt about the comments of critics at the back of that book? blogging means connecting people, so why yahoo just puts the language barrier between their users?
FB is still, however, quite complicated to me, and I couldnt find the compose entry button (is there any blog service provided by FB?)
But Im pretty sure yahoo VN would only be my backup for current entries.
If yahoo still wanna shut down this 360 version, I suppose there would be a big move of users to other blog services such as FB, myspace or blogspot. That means yahoo will fail in keep up with the tastes of young users, who take the largest proportion of 360 accounts registered.
VNmese young people, remember, they dont wanna be bound by a homepage with only VNmese buttons.
Having a blog is seen to be trendy, who wanna be said to be a FOB blogger with the translated language as the fact we could see in yahoo VN?
December 3rd, 2008 at 8:22 pm
@HC:
1. Kindly click here to read my suggestions for an alternative blogging platform.
2. Also, click here to read what I know about blogging in Facebook.
Cheers
December 4th, 2008 at 4:45 am
After posting that comment yesterday, I had a short walk around your blog, and already found those entries about blogging.
Tks a lot
December 4th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
Hi HC, I updated my entry on blogging in Facebook with a guideline on how to blog directly in Facebook.
Cheers