Yahoo 360 to close on July 13
After almost two years without providing any support, Yahoo has finally decided to shut down its blog-centric social Web site Yahoo 360 Degrees completely on July 13. During its more than four years of existence, the site has never actually been out of the beta stage.
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In an e-mail to its members, the company said, "We will be officially closing Yahoo 360 on July 13, 2009, to focus our efforts on making your new profile on Yahoo the place where you connect with the people who matter to you most. As a result, you will need to move your 360 information to your new profile before this date. After July 12, 2009, your content on Yahoo 360 will no longer be accessible."
Yahoo 360 was launched in March 2005. The site never became big in the United States and in October 2007, Yahoo decided to stop providing support for it.
However, in other countries, especially Vietnam, the site has been the most popular blogging portal. For this reason, Vietnamese users can migrate their Yahoo 360 content to Yahoo 360Plus, a product specifically made for the Vietnamese market that the company announced a year ago.
Last August, Yahoo also shut down Mash, which was another failed attempt into social Web sites.
This is sad news for thousands, if not millions, of people worldwide, since for a lot of them the blogs posted on Yahoo 360 and the friends they have there are part of their lives. Yahoo recommends that Yahoo 360 users immediately move their blogs to their current Yahoo profile to save them and download their contacts onto a computer. There are also options to migrate blogs to other blogging sites.
You can find out more information on how to do that here.
Dong Ngo is a CNET editor who covers networking and network storage, and writes about anything else he finds interesting. You can also listen to his podcast at insidecnetlabs.cnet.com. E-mail Dong. 
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Does any one know if the new profile.yahoo.com Blog supports ATOM Publishing Protocol? If so, what is the Service Document URL for publishing to the blogs?
Thanks
Saqib
I don't know the RSS/ATOM feeds for my blogs. For people who want ATOM and RSS feeds for their blog try Google's Blogspot at http://www.blogspot.com
I moved to Facebook for social networking, Gmail for mail and instant messaging & Google's Picasa for picture sharing....
But what if even these great websites shut down suddenly one day? Who is responsible for our years of online life?
- by 7r4m June 3, 2009 2:24 AM PDT
- For bloggers from Vietnam: You can easily move all your entries from Yahoo 360 to Wordpress - the blogging service that seems more professional and useful in meanings. Reach the instruction from the link below:
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Hope that it helps.
7r4m