These themes are scary.
srah's yahoo! 360º blog Full Post View | List View
Hey, yo, why not have a million blogs?
- Aggregation, ho!
-
I look forward to the point where we can bring RSS feeds INTO Yahoo! 360°. I wouldn't mind having my blog, my Flickr account and my Audioscrobbler all aggregated in one place! Right now, though, I have no use for this ridiculous faux-blog (see previous posts) the Yahoo! music player thing or Yahoo! Photos, which has no viewer-interaction. So there. Please get cracking, Yahoo! people!Saturday April 16, 2005 - 09:51am (PDT) Permanent Link | 5 Comments
- Ze criticisms, zey continue
-
I really find it interesting that Yahoo! 360° seems to have so much trouble with non-keyboard characters. Every time I edit a blog entry, I have to fix the ° character, which goes all wonky and turns into capital A's with circumflexes and things.
It seems to me, and I may be CRAAAAAAZY here, that you would want to support the use of the name of your product IN THE PRODUCT ITSELF.Tuesday April 12, 2005 - 07:03am (PDT) Permanent Link | 0 Comments - Prisoner QueSrah, welcome to your cell.
-
As if accounts at Blogger, Xanga, LiveJournal and my real blog weren't enough, BEHOLD! Here is srah's Yahoo! 360° account!
First of all, I really don't think it's a good idea to give your Internet product a name with a character that's not on the keyboard. Second, I don't have high hopes for this blog thing (not just for me - I think it's pretty much a given that I'm not going to be using this regularly when I already have all of these alternatives - but for the world in general) because people like blogging in THEIR OWN SPACE. That's what makes them feel comfortable.
Yahoo! has this strange "renting" metaphor going on - my invitation from Yogi says:
I've rented my own place on Yahoo! 360 and I'd like you to connect to me so we can stay in touch. You can touch my blog, my photos, my lists - and all sorts of things that matter to me. You can rent a personal page and blog of your own, which will be linked to mine. Because who wouldn't want to be linked to mine?!!?
MT lets you publish to your own space. It's sort of like owning your own home. LJ and Blogger make that illusion with customized templates so that you can make the place your own. Yahoo! is like the Albion College dorms, where you cannot use nails or tacks on the walls - just sticky tack - and as a result, all of your belongings will fall off the walls and the ugly institutional white color of the walls shows through. There's no personalization so there's never the comfort of home.Tuesday April 12, 2005 - 06:24am (PDT) Permanent Link | 0 Comments
