Comments on: Your social control panel

By: steve

steve — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:38:30 +0000

I seriously do not know if anyone is running the show at Yahoo anymore. Everytime you guys do anything it turns into a mess. The yahoo chatrooms upgrade complete disaster. Yahoo Ad Publishing Network complete failure and still in beta after 7 years, right? Your huge ads on the email home page completely disrupt a person trying to read their email. And now these useless profiles. You cannot even put favorite links or anything in them. Is this your marketing attempt to keep people from leaving Yahoo by removing the ability to have links to favorite sites? Don’t worry people will just stop looking at profiles all together and go somewhere else. Let Google buy you guys and clean this place up.

By: Nancy Scott

Nancy Scott — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:17:21 +0000

I am disappointed in Yahoo. I kept hearing about how you are going to dump Yahoo so have not been blogging much there now or anywhere as I am so afraid that any day now you will erase everything.
I used to love having my 360 blogs. I used to love how my photos were, but that got dumped. I used to love going into rooms in Yahoo chat but now it is so hard to get in a room and then they are full of nonpeople and still all the sex slinkers.
I dont understand why Yahoo is trying to force people to go elsewhere, but feeling lost because there really isnt anything as nice as what I used to love.

By: Tom Waterman

Tom Waterman — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:11:44 +0000

I found this page after searching for a way to see ‘old style’ profiles because I found the new style utter rubbish. Looks like I’m not the only one. Absolutely useless, tells you NOTHING about the person (whose profile) you are looking at. I have promoted Yahoo services for over 5 years to friends as a first email service but sorry, no more.

By: Poke

Poke — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:52:18 +0000

The new format is ANTI-SOCIAL.

I get 1-1/2 sentences and a thumbnail for people to decide whether I’m someone they want to follow… and 90% of the time I can’t see anything but their thumbnail before adding them as a friend!

How can one be expect to get to know ANYONE in 1/2 sentences… then be expected to click thru and wade for what that person has to say on issues or about themselves?

This new format is doomed to fail… because people will have no use for it.

It’s too twittery… which I’m on my 3rd account cuz friends want me on there… but there’s nothing to do ‘cept read “eating cheerios while listening to britney”.

Which is essentially – what you’re becoming.

By: Poke

Poke — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:04:16 +0000

Wow – amazing series of failures, Yahoo!

Couldn’t have run yer customers off any more effictively!

Everyone else has had functioning social sites for years… you had one… one of the best… then left it to rot…

You beat Google with my yahoo… only to have it fall into irrelevance by blocking people from using your site the way they were trying to use it…

Way to not capitalize on a golden opportunity… while customers and profit flee. Anyone earning those high-dollar paychecks (vs just collecting them)?

By: Harry

Harry — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:57:09 +0000

This is NO upgrade. The new profile is sooo bland. It lacks the features that we 360 users love.

By: paul

paul — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:19:21 +0000

R O F L i mean come on yahell !!!!you all inside of yahoo corp know how much we all love 360 !!!! so why bugger it all up ??? i mean on 360 we could all have fun designing our own pages to suit our moods/feelings/thoughts/ETC….
this new thing looks like a brown bag for a bum on the curve with a bottle of maddog..example>>>>>>> bag…ruffle the bag top to expose the bottle top……twist da bottle top….pour said foul contents in
to ur mouth and fake it that you like it and get a cheap buzz till u puke !!!!!!i guess when you in corp office decide to kill 360 then at that moment i will delete my entire account in favor or a site that leaves well enough alone…..i mean come on !! look at how many versions of yim 8 u have !!!! rofl couldnt get it right so u keep bulding on top of the flaws !!!!
we love 360 dont kill it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Lost Soul

Lost Soul — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 11:10:55 +0000

Silly Yahoo!

By: Anne

Anne — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:59:59 +0000

360 was a perfect format for creative bloggers and a social network – if only it worked. I hate MySpace and Facebook – and I think it’s so sad that 360 never was advertised enough – because it is really the best out there….

Damn me if I understand why you had to mess it up…

By: gaby de wilde

gaby de wilde — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:54:06 +0000

Guys,

The 360 bugs are burning off all your users?

You need ideas, I’m giving you the answer here, I don’t mean to offend you I just want to see solutions.

I know it sounds ridiculous but lets just sell the 360 blogs to google!

You could make them pay 1$ for it draw up a contract so that you can keep your banner and profile link on the pages. That way you do have the profit but without the problems.

Just sell the problem!

Google will make something new from it. You will have money to do your own hip things. Think how hip it would be! A real hybrid service with both yahoo and google profile links!

But most of all everything would return the way it was.

Then when you have some cash in the drawer…..

Yahoo needs a new edge, say a moderated torrent engine to keep up. Unlike blogs this doesn’t cost any bandwidth or server space.

You can also have Opera software create a Y-linux based Y-webbrowser for you and do so very cheaply.

But just sell the 360 problems!

Perhaps Wordpress wants it or Microsoft but Google could slap it on their server in a few days, it wouldn’t cost any bandwidth and little effort.

One important note:

Do redirect all blog postings to the new location.

For example:

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-ooVnzrU3eqXHKSdB2TQ.j3cMn.tCeQ–?cq=1&p=7455

Should redirect to:

http://blog.360.blogger.com/blog-ooVnzrU3eqXHKSdB2TQ.j3cMn.tCeQ–?cq=1&p=7455

And:

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/factuurexpress?p=7455

Should forward to something like:

http://blog.360.yahoo.blogger.com/factuurexpress?p=7455

I have over 3000 blog postings, those should still be available in the search engines…..

….You don’t have to break the links. You don’t have to fix the bugs, you don’t have to loose the advertisement, you don’t have to loose the profile link and you don’t have to loose the traffic.

Google really doesn’t care much what is on the page, they just want as much web real-estate as they can have. 360 is obviously full of youtube links.

Think! A hybrid service will be good for the stocks.

Feel free to delete this message if you must. But know it was me who months before launch gave you a detailed and accurate description of yahoo answers which today matches answers.yahoo.com down to it’s last detail. I also told you to create a yahoo products section, this was first neglected but later you added it because users flooded the computers and Internet department with questions about yahoo products. I also told you to franchise the answers platform to other companies. This was how you neglected to make money from it. Very sad! I think it’s to late now.

So, the new idea is for you to get rid of the blog and do it the right way, stop torturing your users. Get the redirects to work, write up some profile link/advert contract.

Hybrid technology is the future!

The joined advertisement was much to scary to allow it remember? They have to be more moderate ways to do the same thing. Don’t you think? I know for sure you can pull it of.

Thanks for your time and good luck,

-gaby de wilde

By: Renee, Hooch and Spinner

Renee, Hooch and Spinner — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:45:24 +0000

GET 360 BACK RIGHT! OR I QUIT YAHOO ON EVERYTHING!

By: Frank Corless

Frank Corless — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 07:52:05 +0000

I’m a big picture person. I watch to see what unveils. I submit sometimes when something seems fitting. I attempt to make it a bit different yet of value. I’m aware there is more going on than all the negative comments of bloggers who want to keep the status quo. Few recognize that no matter how much we try to hang on things will change whether we try or not. What I do think has not been very effective has been selling your vision. Perhaps you’ve lost it and you are trying to adapt from the success of others. Copiers seldom outstrip the visionary. If you have a vision sell the vision. Help others to see the vision. Fail to sell the vision and people will look for one elsewhere. 360 offered a vision in that it allowed the creative people a place of exchange. It gave people isolated from society for a variety of reasons a voice and a way of noticing that they weren’t alone. It brought people together a bit deeper than the superficial that many other sites provided. It is true that many have pushed boundaries and broken rules yet learning is taking place and people are gaining skills to deal with the unsociable who play their control dramas on others. I know as a user of one of the blogs that has been listed as an interesting page I’d have liked more tools to interact more specifically to different types of approaches. Just being able to say a simple thank you in quick comments instead of smile for instance. Or an extra choice of turning down friend requests because your close to your 300 limit so that one doesn’t have to re write with every request or go searching in files in order to re cut and paste it. The real social development is in allowing the little things that build deeper caring not superficial flirting. find ways to give and teach these and you’ve got a real hit.
Frank C

By: Wild Woman

Wild Woman — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 05:46:31 +0000

Well you opened PROFILE and took away my 360!!!!!

GIVE ME BACK MY 360 PAGE!!!!!!!

By: reza

reza — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:05:35 +0000

where is member since ?

By: Nancy

Nancy — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:35:44 +0000

Still no blog? No wonder your stocks are still spiraling down….

By: Web 3 Graphics

Web 3 Graphics — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 12:48:16 +0000

Looking forward to using this. Have had My Yahoo as my homepage for ages. I think its Garfield comics that always did it for me. Also Yahoo has more of a community feel than iGoogle.

By: find-da-face-in da img

find-da-face-in da img — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:44:03 +0000

interesting comments above

By: floyd

floyd — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:24:23 +0000

Sorry to say to the upset users this will be the new Yahoo. The picked the direction because they see dollar signs in the numbers of social networkers. Yahoo will be changing whether we like it or not. Even voting with your feet won’t necessarily change their mind.

Yahoo ain’t what it was, its going this way no matter what. We’ve been done away with. The best we can do is fight for a new feature on some product or another. Don’t count on your ‘No’ meaning anything compared to the metrics though. You will be outvoted by what people actually do. I say vote with your feet, tell a friend, and get a helmet. This is the new Yahoo.

See you on the alternative sites.

By: izzy

izzy — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:00:09 +0000

Yahoo had a “gem” with the 360 format. Unique, easy to use, fun,and exciting. You were the only game in town with this one folks. Instead of listening to your customers and improving the basic product, you throw it out in favor of yet ANOTHER social networking site such as Facebook and MySpace??? If that is what I wanted, that is where I would be…..I don’t want it and I am not there. I adore 360 and unfortuntely there is nothing else out there like it to go to. What a shame.

By: RS

RS — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:55:29 +0000

They just cut 1500 jobs today. I can only hope the genius behind the profiles rollout was one of them. Everyone else I feel bad for, victims of management mistakes like this one…its not the what (okay, it is kind of–they took away a lot of functionality and privacy), but mostly, its the how.

By: donw

donw — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:37:12 +0000

thankss

By: Terra

Terra — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:20:52 +0000

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/Oldyahooprofiles/signatures.html

Yahoo should not be a social network. If we wanted facebook we would ask, if we wanted Myspace we would ask. We do not want these things, we do not need these things.

If you wanted to offer them to us then you should have done so as a separate, new upgrade rather than stripping away our profile information and handing us this clunky, unsafe mess with many key features stripped out. It is not acceptable and we will not stand for it.

Yahoo faces a choice. You can continue down this path and lose a good deal of your customers, including paying SBC Yahoo DSL customers and others who directly pay you for services and even lose users who help bring in ad dollars. Or you can understand your customer base does not want this. The time has come. Swallow your pride and turn back or keep going down the path to bankruptcy. I promise you that none of us want to see Yahoo go down but if the alternative is to have products like the new Profile system forced upon us then I think its best the stockholders lose their money and the designers lose their jobs as punishment for willful ignorance.

By: coxy

coxy — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:09:39 +0000

I like the new layout and everything that’s been done with it so far.

I’d like to see the following services integrated into the Yahoo! Profile pages because these pages are an essential starting point to bring Yahoo! services together and can also be used to promote services to users that might not be aware of what Yahoo! offers:

Flickr, Y! Buzz, Upcoming, FireEagle, delicious, Y! Bookmarks, Answers.

What’s more; it would be awesome if I could import an RSS feed to my blog. Do not turn this into a blogging service – I cannot stress that enough. It needs to be more like Yahoo!’s FriendFeed.

What you should also do is allow me to use my profile URL as an OpenID identifier.

By: RS

RS — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:20:17 +0000

OK, one last dig, and then I’m done nattering about a product I don’t use.

“Ultimately, our goal is to unify your social experience and connections not only on Yahoo!, but anywhere you travel across the Web. Rolling out the new profile today is a just first step, and I look forward to sharing more details with you in the coming months as we “light up” social experiences at Yahoo!.”

Jim, where was the user demand for this? Who came to you and said “Jim, we sure wish we could do this with Yahoo”? People don’t use Yahoo for Social Networking, and although some might want to, not all do. Forcing everyone to use it will serve to drive off those that don’t, or so I would think.

It really feels like something done to grab a segment of the market, and not something done because Yahoo users wanted it. The poor rollout process says volumes about whos interests were being served…I don’t see any evidence of user consideration going on. Where was it?

By: RS

RS — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:13:14 +0000

Well, ya blew it again. Take a quick gander at the 1500 comments on the profiles blog. Almost all negative. Then take a quick look at the Groups blog, almost 200 comments, all negative again. You really hosed the process here.

360 users: they said a while back there were no plans to address any problems there, they gave up on that product a long time ago. This was their fix for all the 360 users problems.

Once again, yahoo has rolled out an incomplete product with no warning to a user base they hoped would take to it, forgetting completely (or perhaps not being aware of) the customer’s preferences. The overwhelming sentiment is “put it back”, will you see or hear this in time?

Oh and buy Rachel and Melissa some cookies. They are getting absolutely blasted over there. You may want to just keep baking because they are funneling users towards the Customer Care department, some ofw hom have never heard of the new product even, according to one user who called up yahoo.

Have fun spinning this one…

By: niqh

niqh — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:49:32 +0000

Profiles is not just about present social networking and fun, its something more important coz it involves many future products which would depend on how profiles foundations are laid today. Hence Yahoo! has to be responsible.
I know something like profile is complex and yahoo! is huge but something tells me in the open source world y’all are creating w’all will be very dependent on our profiles.
I accessed the profile page but did the go further coz i did not like something about it, sorry.

By: izzy

izzy — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:16:44 +0000

i hate the new profile layout!!!!!!!!! HORRIBLE. BRING BACK THE OLD LAYOUT. this is suppose to protect privacy but to me its more invasive.

By: Posteris

Posteris — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:46:19 +0000

Once again YOUR way or the highway…to do this for every profile is a waste of space. Think how many dead links there are out there from all the other forays you had…KISS..it should be a CHOICE…profile or ’social control’ panel.
Oh..and if you do allow your info to be seen you MUST allow 3rd party apps? What is that? Who do you ever ask for info? Most who take the time to write are not the average user. Ever thought of that?

By: Dude

Dude — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:39:33 +0000

Yahoo should give the option to users to choose if they want their profile to be displayed publicly in the “new format” or the “old one”.
I personally liked old format.

And what have u done with all the info. which was there in the profile ?? It is totally blank now!!

By: cky

cky — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:36:12 +0000

this is the stupidest move yaho could have made now there is no public profile and i dont want to be on anyones friends list or in there contacts thats why i deny over 300 inivataions a day to be someones friend just like yahoo messenger there is no way to deny and ignore all contact invitations theres no way to view a users profile with out being on there contacts this is the stupidest thing that can be done if i wanted to use my space i would but i dont so i dont want my yahoo to be myspace or to look or act like any other service this is dumb