Looks Like it`s Back to the Drawing Board for Yahoo 360 - Getting Started

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The first thing I was prompted to do is create "My Page," which appears to be a shabby attempt at creating a "MySpace" styled personal profile. This feature is fairly customizable, easy to use, and allows for images, a personal message, etc., but it clearly pales in comparison to the myriad of customization options offered at Myspace.com. And part of the problem is that most of the custom features available at MySpace come courtesy of third-party providers such as www.pimpmyspace.org. Yahoo 360 simply can't compete in this aspect, because their lack of popularity means that no enterprising web publishers will spend much time customizing layouts and tools for Yahoo's offering they way they do for MySpace. Need proof? My website portfolio includes a Myspace profile customization site, but I've never even contemplated such a move as it relates to a customization site for Yahoo 360 (and I'm sure I'm not alone).

On to the next step, which was to set up my actual blog. Here I encountered much of the standard fare offered by other portals like blogger.com. They even had a check box for publishers that wished to mark their blog as "Mature Content." Apparently, this designation ensures that said blog can only be viewed by people that want to view mature content.

The actual publishing interface is fairly simple, and reminiscent of what is offered at blogger.com. Yahoo 360 allows for a title, and image attachment, and a half-dozen or so text formatting options. It won't really do the trick for professional, SEO-minded publishers because it doesn't offer a way to edit key meta tags such as the "Title" tag. But then again, blogger.com doesn't offer that function either.

(Note: The title of the blog also serves as the Title tag on the HTML document, so for those of you limited to blogger.com or other basic blogging interfaces, remember to create keyword heavy titles!).

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