Profiling the new blogs
| Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 | --Sean |
Since it was announced that Yahoo! 360 was closing its doors, people have been complaining that the proposed replacement, in the form of Yahoo! Profiles, didn't fulfill their blogging needs. Which was a legitimate complaint, one that I even shared, because I wanted to blog with Yahoo! and I wasn't able to...until now!*
The new Blog that comes with Yahoo! profiles is a straightforward little thing, mostly a place for you to dump rich-text-edited thoughts in relation to your primary public-facing Yahoo! page. It's not complex but it doesn't really need to be -- you've got your blog entries, you've got a place to see all of 'em, you've got comment boxes attached to 'em, and you can display them front and center by dragging the module around your profile. If you decide that you'd like to keep your insightful commentary and/or pictures of your cat a bit more private, there are plenty of hooks for controlling those settings. There are still a few little annoyances -- a few too many steps to insert images, for instance, since you need to set up external hosting, and no great central location for viewing all of your entries (aside from the View All link, which isn't linked from within each blog post) -- but it gets the job done and will undoubtedly improve with time.
I've heard a lot about using blogging to give yourself a better profile online, but thanks to Yahoo! Profiles for flipping it around and giving us back an online blog at all.
* Well, I mean, until now, since we got rid of that last product that let you blog with Yahoo!.