Yahoo! 360°

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**Yahoo! 360°**
Typical 360° personal homepage (when logged in and viewing one's own page)
URL	http://360.yahoo.com/
Commercial?	Yes
Type of site	Social network service
Registration	Required
Owner	Yahoo!
Created by	Yahoo! 360° teams

Yahoo! 360° (a.k.a Yahoo! Days) is a personal communication portal similar to orkut and MySpace, currently in beta testing. It integrates features of social networking, blogging, and photo sharing sites.

A user may create a personal web site, share their photos from Yahoo! Photos, maintain a blog, a list of local reviews, profile information, and see which friends are currently online. 360° also, by default, features a 'friends updates' section, under which the each friends' latest update is summarised (e.g. blog posts, updates lists, new photostream etc.). 360° also goes a step further than standard friend connections by permitting the creation and/or joining of forums (referred to as "groups") under which users that share a common interest can talk. These are operated using Yahoo! Groups, and the integration with 360° is used for this feature.

The service launched on March 29, 2005.

A Yahoo! 360° API is also in the works.

1 History
2 Features
3 Integration with Yahoo! Messenger
4 Integration with other Yahoo! services
5 Official Blog
6 Celebrities using Yahoo! 360°
7 See also
8 External links

[edit] History

The service launched on March 29, 2005 on an invite-only basis. The service removed its invite-only status on June 24, 2005 and has since become available to any Yahoo! user over the age of 18 in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada, Australia and Japan.

[edit] Features

Features introduced with 360°:

Themes - custom and prebuilt
Blogs (complete with RSS feeds)
Lists - where users may compile interests, favourite movies, books, and so on
Feeds - where users may include RSS feeds for themselves and others from their favourite sources
Photos - users may share their public photo albums from Yahoo! Photos and Flickr.com
Blasts - quick posts or ideas that are neither published in the blog nor archived
Testimonials - "review" and praise your close friends
Groups - connect to users sharing similar interests
Friend Updates - view latest activities from friends
Quick Comments - leave short messages on other peoples' pages
LAUNCHcast - share music stations and tastes
Reviews from Yahoo! Local, Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo! Travel and Yahoo! Games

[edit] Integration with Yahoo! Messenger

Since v8.0, Yahoo! Messenger has built in features that allow you to view your 360° page, update your blast, post blog entries and view your friend updates all from within Messenger. This integration allows Messenger users to easily view their contacts' pages and also alerts users when their contacts' have updated their page.