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According to Constantin Basturea, the team behind Yahoo’s blogging platform — Yahoo! 360° — has launched a product blog. Unfortunately for them, he also points out they may be eating too much of "their own dog food" since the blog has an ugly URL...
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-1qCkw2Ehaak.hdNZkEAzDrpa4Q–
Say that 3x fast!
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(Updated April 23, 2005)
Yahoo's blogging platform -- cleverly named Yahoo! 360° -- has launched a product blog. I really hope that the person responsible for setting it up will be interviewed and kindly asked to spell out, in print, on radio and TV,... [Read More]
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Well, personally, I wish everybody would turn off the address bar, because URLs are not human readable, ugly or beautiful. I have to admit, that URL is pretty ugly.
Posted by: Randy Charles Morin | Friday, April 22, 2005 at 08:49 PM
After playing around with 360 for a few weeks now, I just don't see it as something that will become popular. I think one of the main allures to blogs is being able to theme it to fit your personality...and 360 and MSN spaces really kill that aspect.
Posted by: Drew | Friday, April 22, 2005 at 08:53 PM
Why did you use that URL when the link on every single page is http://blog.360.yahoo.com/product_360 and it works just fine - the persistent (scrambled) links are for people who want to protect their Yahoo! ID. Every user can choose to use their Yahoo! ID for their blog name.
Posted by: A 360 Team Member | Saturday, April 23, 2005 at 03:15 AM
Your response doesn't address the problem of human unfriendly URLs, dear "360 team member". You can find my response to your comment here.
Posted by: Constantin Basturea | Saturday, April 23, 2005 at 07:57 AM