This is one of my favorite subjects. Allow me to explain.... Yahoo spent several million dollars about 10 years ago to buy Geocities. It was a smart move.
Why? Because folks like me "cut our teeth" at html coding when we opened a free Geocities account. Eventually I wanted to do more than Geocities could offer, so I signed-up for a Yahoo Small Business webhosting account, and now I pay a fee of about $13 a month to Yahoo for hosting my website.
Smart move huh? Give people a taste of what they want and they will pay for the real thing. So what did Yahoo do to screw things up?
They closed Geocities! Nevermind that it was fueling paying customers to their webhosting business. They just don't care!
Ok, so next up. Yahoo used to have a service called Yahoo Briefcase. It was a means of storing files and data online, so you could access it anywhere else; like saving some word documents and spreadsheets to Yahoo Briefcase at work and later accessing the info at home so you could work at home on the weekend.
Nice eh? Certainly. But, of course, Yahoo decided to close it down.
What did I do? I did a Yahoo search for a similar service and found one. For the first time, I opened a free MSN account so that I could use their MSN Skydrive Live service.
It's great! The only thing is...why would Yahoo try to make customers like me flee their services and go to a competitor? Finally there is Yahoo 360.
Now you might think that it was just another MySpace clone. But let me tell you, I was actually using it to connect (network) with people I didn't know, but shared a common interest in professional topics. It was probably the easiest way to make such contacts - since MySpace is geared toward teenagers that simply wish to gossip...and FaceBook is made for people that generally already know one another or are friends of friends.
So, Yahoo 360 was a means to connect to others that may share your interests, such as law, auto repair, stamp and coin collecting, martial arts, or whatever. Where is Yahoo 360 today? It's gone!
Yahoo management decided to remove it since it was perhaps too useful. Anyone here remember Yahoo Classifieds? I do.
It was more popular than Craigslist at one point. Only Yahoo shut it down. We don't want Yahoo to be too successful do we?
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