Friday, April 22, 2005

360 degrees of Yahoo

Yahoo has come full circle indeed. From the days of the early search engine and email to the wholesome integration of a lot of useful online services, Yahoo has grown so much. And now comes 360 degrees - a service that integrates most of the online services of Yahoo. It offers a blog, photos, mobile connectivity, messenger integration, communities, reviews and a whole lot more.

Like Orkut before it, 360 degrees is right now in beta and taking a leaf from the exclusivity idea of GMail, 360 degrees beta is by invite only. Orkut has been functioning under the beta tag for such a long while that it makes me wonder what beta means. I guess it means that when you get the "Bad, bad server. No donut for you" message on Orkut, you smile indulgently and let it pass. It is just in beta anyway. It will be interesting to watch how long 360 degrees stays in the beta state.

Given Yahoo's huge user base, 360 degrees should be a furnace!

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