Yahoo 360 was developed as a new social media portal platform that in my opinion never really took off. It was supposed to combine a social network functionality with all the content aggregation from other sources that you’re actively involved. It’s not a huge shock to me it’s shutting down.

I had a Yahoo 360 account because I had a Yahoo account. I’m not sure I ever used the Yahoo 360 platform. Did anyone really use it on purpose? To me it was just another one of those services that really wasn’t thought through well and didn’t offer anything new that …read more

Coming right off my post on Google continuing to pursue their world domination, I find out today that they’ve now launched Google profiles. Your Google profile is kind of like a personal billboard for yourself online. A place to bring together all of your business, personal and social network personas.

The information available reminds me of the type of site I configured for ClaimID awhile back (and I need to update!). You put together a collection of all the sites you’re active on, in coordination with your contact information and other details about you like where you’ve lived, where you live, …read more

Sometimes uncovering all the cool stuff on the web means you sign-up for a lot of sites to give them a try, only to realize later that you’re really not interested in maintaining your profile on those sites. The challenge can be trying to get rid of those profiles on sites you’re not interested in using anymore.
There’s a very helpful article on the PC Magazine website on How to Delete Accounts from Any Website. The article runs through the process of getting rid of your profile on one of 23 different websites: Classmates, Facebook, Friendster, LinkedIn, MySpace, MyLife, Amazon, Audible, …read more