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Yahoo 360 Shutting Down

Jason Bean — Sat, 30 May 2009 03:01:00 +0000

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 somebody else wasn’t already doing and executing the idea better to go along with it.

Will Yahoo 360 be missed? I doubt it. Where do you aggregate your online information instead.

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Google Launches Google Profiles

Jason Bean — Fri, 08 May 2009 00:29:29 +0000

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, who you’re working for and who you’ve worked for in the past.

Your contact information can be restricted to just your contacts in your Gmail address book, distribution groups in your address book, or independent groups you setup yourself through the site. I think they should also add the different groups you may be associated with in Google Groups.

There’s portions of it that also remind me of the types of information you’d share on both Facebook from a social/personal perspective; as well as the professional side you’d share on LinkedIn.

Given that it’s a Google page, you can bet it will be indexed well and come up in search results for the keywords you’ve used in your profile. Depending on the amount of information you share, you may get that Facebook effect of reconnecting with people you haven’t talked to or perhaps even though of in forever.

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Uncovering Your Tracks

Jason Bean — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:39:29 +0000

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.

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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, Blockbuster, eBay, iTunes, Netflix, PayPal, Blogger, Twitter, Flickr, Photobucket, YouTube, AOL/AIM, Apple MobileMe, Google, Windows Live, and Yahoo.

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