Thursday, March 17, 2005

Will I defect?


Seems strange to talk about this on a newly created Blogger site, but all the talk about Yahoo 360 is making me wonder if that might be the better place to blog? Assuming that anyone with a Yahoo ID can post/join, etc. setting up a community blog with my MBA-mates would make a whole lot more sense there - since we already have a Yahoo Group going.

The recommendations and social-network type of features are especially intriguing and something I thought that the other social networks should have stressed more in their ramp up to get the requisite network effect. Like Charlene mentions in her post, if all your friends and family are already there - and importantly signed up - then blogging is an easy extension. Trying to convince my parents or girlfriend or school-mates to sign up at a completely different site, since Blogger doesn't equal Google for most folks, is a hard sell.

I am eagerly waiting to see if Yahoo 360 lives up to my expectations...

UPDATE: There are screenshots out now.