RSS is not currently present, but Yahoo does have a blurb advertising this feature as “coming soon”, not only for the blog but also for the photos and other content. I wonder what features of Flickr we’ll see rolled into Yahoo Photos (and thus, into Yahoo!360) in the near future.
All in all, I’d say that Yahoo!360 is a nice tool for whom it’s targeted for, that being non-technical users and newbies to blogs, etc. (Much like MSN Spaces target audience). The integration of Yahoo’s various services is actually very well done, and the layout of the page you create is very nice.
While I probably won’t be a constant user of Yahoo!360, I do see a lot of potential here. I would suggest to Yahoo that they work on the “customizability” of the page style, and add a few niceties like a spell checker to the blogging tool.
For anyone interested, here’s my Yahoo!360 site.
For a “version 2.0", I’d like to see integration with Yahoo! Mail, and perhaps even API access to Yahoo!360. With API access, this could become a tool that even techies could love.
Article comments
1 - mroblivious1bmf
i've still found yahoo 360's implementation of css and html to be unsatisfactory.
if it wants to be a myspace clone, i say they need to broaden the features.
2 - Joseph Dunphy
Two years later:
We do have some control over colors and fonts, and can use textures for our page backgrounds, though not our text backgrounds. On the other hand, reviews never seem to post. I have a few that I posted a few months ago, still haven't shown up, and support shows no signs of being willing to even listen to the problem report. I ended up linking to my Yahoo local profile from my 360 blog roll and getting an account on Yelp.
It's a long way from perfection, but the annoyances get to be predictable after a while, and one can build one's plans around them.