Sep 06
Yahoo! 360plus introduced data migration tool from Yahoo! 360. Where is the enthusiasm?
Category: How Products benefit users Add comments- 360plus started off in April 26, 2008.
- Reaction was very weak. None, yes, none, of my 360 friends moved to 360plus. Even the non-tech users lost their confidence in Yahoo! products. When they saw the buggy 360plus, they even backed off farther.
- Later on we learned that 360plus Vietnam was the product for Vietnam. What was meant to replace 360 is Yahoo! Universal Profile.
- With no old friend on 360plus, I made friends with some a few new people though. However, it was neither an information goldmine nor a communication platform I was looking for. The community there was filled with spams, unthoughtful and inconsiderate bloats from younger users, despite some very nice efforts to guide the new users. I lost my patience after around 500 entries.
- I tried to come up with around 20 suggestions for features for the 360plus team before quitting nevertheless.
- Not until early September did they introduce a data migration tool from 360 to 360plus. What flabbergasted me was that the tool looks like it bases on public RSS feed from 360 to import to 360plus, which means the 360plus team has limited access to the 360 global database. Where is inter-department collaboration inside Yahoo!?
- But I’m sorry it was too late I was not even trying the tool out. I have backed up entries I want to keep to my Window Live Spaces blog, manually.
- Many of my friends on 360 have moved to Facebook.
- Will 360plus Vietnam hit the 2 million cap that 360 did in Vietnam?
Addendum
Yahoo! shut down their “social network experiment” Mash just a few days before. Generally people agreed with this decision, Mash was too weak even for a marginal project to last.
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September 6th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Don’t worry. They will shut it down soon just like what they did to Mash. Yahoo’se never made a good product except for Messenger and Zimbra (well, they bought Zimbra anyway).
September 6th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Yahoo360plus failed because it kept Vietnamese ‘360ers’ from meeting non-Vietnamese users from around the world. If there were some English support, I would suspect many more Yahoo 360 users would have moved over.
As I mentioned in this posting:
http://www.saigonnezumi.com/?p=643
Many of Yahoo 360 users will move to Facebook. I know with my students, I am starting to see that. Before the school year ended, many did not have Facebook accounts, now they do. A lot stopped updating their Yahoo 360 accounts and they refuse to move over to Yahoo 360plus.
I still think it was a bad move on Yahoo’s part.
September 7th, 2008 at 6:16 am
Kevin, I can’t agree with you more. I’ve moved to FB permanently for almost 2 months. And I see my sister moving too. She’s already had around 20 friends on FB within the first 2 days. That’s kinda amazing.
September 10th, 2008 at 11:37 am
@Kevin & Hung: I will give you more statistical data soon.