Yahoo copies Netvibes and LinkedIn

    It is known that the service of creating personal pages My Yahoo (created in 1996) with 50 million users is at the same time the most popular RSS aggregator on the Internet , noticeably ahead of Google Reader and Bloglines in popularity. As in the case of Yahoo Mail, remaking this service in the spirit of Web 2.0 means that the fashion for new interfaces has gone to the masses. That corporation Yahoo, which owns the most popular sites on the Internet, is the "locomotive" that moves Web 2.0 to the most conservative users, and there are millions of them. Now Yahoo is no longer creating almost anything new, barely managing to copy the most successful ideas from other startups, although before it was different: in 1996 My Yahoo was probably the first such service on the Internet.

    New version of My Yahoo( screenshots, traffic ) does not embody any original ideas. The beta version of My Yahoo borrowed the most successful tricks from the well-known "webdanull" services for creating personal web pages like Netvibes and Pageflakes , as well as Live.com .

    The borrowing was very successful, so the new version of My Yahoo has become much more interactive and functional, similar to a full-fledged desktop program. Among the new features - automatic creation of a preliminary page for a new user based on his profile; support for full-text feeds (previously only headers were displayed); setting colors on a personal page; export function, when a user can send his entire personal page or individual modules to friends - it is very similar to the similar Pageflakes function, but does not require authorization from the recipient.




    Regarding the upgrade of competitors highly critical spokeDirector of Pageflakes, which until January of this year led the division of My Yahoo. Among his claims is that My Yahoo service is closed to third-party developers and third-party services, so that content cannot be exported normally and even your personal page cannot be published in the public domain.

    Yahoo Answers Network ( detailed description ) adds a component of social networks to the well-known service of questions and answers Yahoo Answers . Now, each of the 90 million users of this service can ask a question not abstractly “to the entire Internet”, but to a specific group of people. For example, only to your friends. This feature is very useful in some personal, intimate matters. Here, LinkedIn Answers social network became a model for copying.. It is possible that similar functionality of social networks will soon appear in other Yahoo services. In general, the Yahoo portal is gradually turning into one large social network based on Yahoo’s social services Flickr, Del.icio.us, MyBlogLog, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, MyWeb, Yahoo Video, Yahoo Bookmarks 2.0 and Yahoo Photos.

    The Yahoo Answers Network is another step towards upgrading the Yahoo portal in the spirit of Web 2.0.

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